So Haman came in, and the king asked him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?”
Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” Esther 6:6 Continue reading
God
Memorable Scripture: That Person
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate. Esther 5:13 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: For Such A Time As This
Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Give your life.
“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.” Esther 4:11 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Obtaining Grace and Favor
Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Esther 2:12 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Love & Respect
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs; therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him. Esther 1:12 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Contend, Curse, Struck, & Pull Hair
So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.” Nehemiah 13:25 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Day of Rest & Worship
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.” Nehemiah 13:17-18 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Separating – Godliness doesn’t mix with ungodliness.
So it was, when they had heard the Law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel. Nehemiah 13:3 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: The Work Never Ends.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God. Nehemiah 6:15-16 Continue reading