Esther Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ And it will be in the days of Ahasuerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned from India and even to Cush; seven and twenty and one hundred provinces:) ² In those days, when king Ahasuerus sat upon the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the fortress, ³ In the third year to his reign he made a drinking to all his chiefs and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and chiefs of the provinces before him: ⁴ In his causing to see the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the honor of his great splendor many days, eighty and one hundred days. ⁵ And in these days being completed the king made to all the people being found in Shushan the fortress, a drinking to the great and even to the small, seven days, in the enclosure of the garden of the king's house; ⁶ Splendid fine white linen, and cerulean purple, made fast with cords of byssus and purple, upon rings of silver and pillars of marble: couches of gold and silver upon a tesselated pavement of marble, and marble and pearl and spotted marble. ⁷ And giving drink in vessels of gold and vessels different from vessels, and wine of the kingdom, an abundance, according to the hand of the king. ⁸ Giving to drink according to the edict; none compelling, for thus the king appointed to all the multitude of his house to do according to the desire of man and man. ⁹ Also Vashti the queen made a drinking to the women of the house of the kingdom which was to king Ahasuerus. ¹⁰ In the seventh day, as the heart of the king being good with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs serving the face of king Ahasuerus, ¹¹ To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown of the kingdom, to cause the people and the chiefs to see her beauty: for she was good of appearance. ¹² And the queen Vashti will refuse to come in at the word of the king which was by the hand of the eunuchs: and the king will be angry greatly, and his wrath burnt in him. ¹³ And the king will say to the wise knowing the times, (for thus spake the king before all knowing the edict and judgment: ¹⁴ And there drew near to him Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, seven chiefs of Persia and Media, seeing the face of the king, sitting the first in the kingdom;) ¹⁵ According to the edict what to do against the queen Vashti, for that she did not the word of the king Ahasuerus by the hand of the eunuchs? ¹⁶ And Memucan will say before the king, Not against the king alone did Vashti the queen do evil, but against all the chiefs and against all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. ¹⁷ For the word of the queen will go forth ball the women to cause their husbands to be despised in their eyes, in their saying, The king Ahasuerus said to bring in Vashti the queen before him, and she came not ¹⁸ And this day shall the chief ladies of Persia and Media say, which heard the word of the queen to all the chiefs of the king, and according to contempt and reproach. ¹⁹ If good to the king, the word of the kingdom shall go forth from before him, and it shall be written in the edict of the Persians and Medea, and it shall not pass away, that Vashti shall not come before the king Ahasuerus; and the king shall give her kingdom to her companion good above her. ²⁰ And the decree of the king which he shall make being heard in all his kingdom, (for it is great,) and all the women shall give honor to their husbands, to the great and even to the small. ²¹ And the word will be good in the eyes of the king and the chiefs; and the king will do according to the word of Memucan. ²² And he will send letters to all the provinces of the king, to provinces and provinces, according to its writing, and to people and people, according to their tongue, for every man to be ruling in his house; and being spoken according to the tongue of his people.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

²⁰ And it will be in the third day, the day of the birth of Pharaoh, and he will make a drinking to all his servants; and he will lilt up the head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers, in the midst of his servants.

³⁷ And the word will be good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

³⁴ And he will take gifts from before him to them: and Benjamin's gift will increase above all their gifts, five parts. And they will drink and be intoxicated with him.

¹ And thou shalt make the tent, ten curtains, white linen twisted, and cerulean purple, and reddish purple, and double scarlet: and cherubs the work of the artificer shalt thou make them.

³¹ And make a vail of cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet, and twisted byssus, the work of the artificer: he shall make with it Cherubs. ³² And give it upon four acacia pillars spread over with gold: their pegs of gold upon four silver bases.

³⁶ And make a covering for the door of the tent, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet and white byssus, a variegated work. ³⁷ And make for the covering five acacia pillars, and spread them over with gold, their pegs gold: and cast for them five bases of brass.

¹⁹ And it will be when he drew near to the camp, and he will see the calf and the lute: and the wrath of Moses will kindle, and he will cast the tables out of his hand, and he will break them under the mount

²² And Aaron will say, The wrath of my lord shall not kindle: thou knowest the people that it is in sin.

¹³ And all the people shall hear, and shall fear, and shall no more act proudly.

²¹ And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.

²⁰ Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens.

²⁹ Her wise chiefs will answer, Surely, will she turn back words to herself,

²⁵ And it will be when their heart will be joyful, and they will say, Call to Samson, and he shall play to us. And they will call to Samson from the house of bonds and he will play before them, and they will set him between the pillars.

²⁸ And Samuel will say to him, Jehovah rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and gave it to thy neighbor being good above thee.

³ And the name of the man Nabal; and his wife's name Abigail: and the woman good of understanding, and beautiful of form: and the man hard and evil of works; and he as his dog.

³⁶ And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning. ³⁷ And it will be in the morning in the wine coming forth from Nabal, and his wife will announce to him these words, and his heart will die in the midst of him, and he was for a stone.

¹⁶ And the ark of Jehovah was coming to the city of David, and Michal, Saul's daughter, looked forth without the window, and she will see king David being strengthened and leaping before Jehovah, and she will despise him in her heart.

¹ And it will be when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah gave rest to him from round about from all his enemies.

²⁸ And Absalom will command his boys, saying, See now, when the heart of Amnon is good with wine, and I said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill him; ye shall not be afraid, for I commanded you: be strong and be for sons of strength.

²⁵ And as Absalom there was not a fair man in all Israel to praise greatly: from the sole of his foot and even to his crown, there was not a blemish in him

⁴⁶ And also Solomon will sit upon the throne of the kingdom.

¹⁵ And Solomon will awake; and behold, a dream. And he will go to Jerusalem and stand before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and bring up burnt-offerings, and he will do peace, and make a drinking to all his servants.

²⁸ And all Israel will hear the judgment which the king judged, and they will be afraid of the face of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of Jehovah was in the midst of him to do judgment

²¹ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon, gold, and every vessel of the house of the forest of Lebanon, gold shut up; nothing silver: it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for any thing.

³ And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart

¹⁹ And out of the city he took one eunuch, he who was appointed over the men of war, and five men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city:

³² And from the sons of Issachar, those knowing the understanding to the times to know what Israel shall do; their heads two hundred; and all their brethren at their mouth.

¹¹ To thee, O Jehovah, the greatness and the strength, and the glory and the confidence, and the majesty: for all in the heavens and in the earth to thee, O Jehovah, the kingdom and being lifted up to all for head. ¹² And riches and honor from before thee, and thou ruling over all, and in thy hand power and strength, and in thy hand to magnify and to strengthen to all.

²⁵ And Jehovah will magnify Solomon to above before the eyes of all Israel, and he will give upon him the majesty of the kingdom which was not upon any king before him over Israel.

⁸ And Solomon will do the festival in this time seven days, and all Israel with him, a great convocation, from the going in of Hamath even to the torrent of Egypt ⁹ And they will do in the eighth day a restraint: for they did the consecration of the altar, seven days; and the festival, seven days.

²⁰ And all the vessels of drinking of king Solomon, gold; and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon, of shut up gold: no silver was reckoned in the days of Solomon for any thing.

²¹ And the sons of Israel, those found in Jerusalem, will do the festival of the unleavened seven days, in great gladness: and the priests and the Levites praising to Jehovah day by day with instruments of strength to Jehovah. ²² And Hezekiah will speak to the heart of all the Levites considering the good knowledge to Jehovah: and they will eat at the appointment seven days, sacrificing sacrifices of peace, and confessing to Jehovah the God of their fathers. ²³ And all the convocation will take counsel to do other seven days: and they will do seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah lifted up to the convocation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the chiefs lifted up to the convocation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and the priests will consecrate themselves to a multitude. ²⁵ And all the convocation of Judah will rejoice, and the priests and the Levites, and all the convocation coming from Israel, and the strangers coming from the land of Israel, and those dwelling in Judah.

² Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah gave to me, the God of the heavens; and he charged upon me to build for him a house in Jerusalem which is in Judah.

⁶ And in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his kingdom, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁴ For the cause that being sent from before the king and the seven counselors to seek concerning Judah and for Jerusalem, by the law of thy God that is in thy hand;

¹ The words of Nehemiah son of Hachaliah. And it will be in the month Chisleu, the twentieth year, and I was in Shushan the fortress;

¹⁴ And there drew near to him Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, seven chiefs of Persia and Media, seeing the face of the king, sitting the first in the kingdom;)

¹⁹ If good to the king, the word of the kingdom shall go forth from before him, and it shall be written in the edict of the Persians and Medea, and it shall not pass away, that Vashti shall not come before the king Ahasuerus; and the king shall give her kingdom to her companion good above her.

²¹ And the word will be good in the eyes of the king and the chiefs; and the king will do according to the word of Memucan.

³ And the king shall appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and they shall gather together all the maidens, virgins, good of appearance, to Shushan the fortress, to the house of the women, to the hand of Hegai, the king's eunuch, watching the women; giving their purifications: ⁴ And the maiden who shall be good in the eyes of the king shall reign instead of Vashti. And the word will be good in the eyes of the king; and he will do so.

¹⁷ And the king will love Esther above all the women, and she will receive favor and mercy before him above all the virgins; and he will set the crown of the kingdom upon her head, and he will cause her to reign instead of Vashti. ¹⁸ And the king will make a great drinking to all his chiefs and his servants; Esther's drinking; and he made rest to the provinces, and he will give a lifting up according to the hand of the king.

⁹ If good to the king, it shall be written to destroy them: and I will weigh ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those doing the work, to bring to the king's treasures.

¹² And the king's scribes will be called in the first month, in the thirteenth day in it, and it will be written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the prefects, which were over province and province, and to the chiefs of people and people of province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue; in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.

¹⁵ And they running went forth, being impelled by the word of the king, and the edict was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city Shushan was disquieted.

¹⁶ Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.

⁴ And Esther will say, If good to the king, will the king come, and Haman, this day, to the drinking which I made for him?

⁸ If I found favor in the eyes of the king, and if good to the king to give my asking and to do my seeking, the king shall come and Haman to the drinking that I shall make for them, and to-morrow I will do as the king said.

⁶ And Haman will come in. And the king will say to him, What to be done for the man whom the king delighted in his honor? And Haman will say in his heart, To whom will the king delight to do honor more abundantly than me?

⁸ They shall bring in the clothing of the kingdom which the king was clothed in, it and the horse which the king rode upon him, and the crown of the kingdom which was given upon his head:

⁷ And the king rose up in his wrath from the drinking of wine, to the garden of the palace: and Haman stood up to seek out for his soul from Esther the queen; for he saw that evil was completed for him from the king. ⁸ And the king turned back from the garden of the palace to the house of the drinking of wine; and Haman fell upon the bed which Esther was upon And the king will say, Also is he to force the queen with me in the house? The word went forth from the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.

⁸ And the king turned back from the garden of the palace to the house of the drinking of wine; and Haman fell upon the bed which Esther was upon And the king will say, Also is he to force the queen with me in the house? The word went forth from the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face. ⁹ And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, will say before the king, Also behold the tree which Haman made for Mordecai who spake good for the king, standing in Haman's house, high fifty cubits: And the king will say, Ye shall hang him upon it

⁵ And she will say, If good to the king, and if I found favor before him, and the word be right before the king, and I good in his eyes, it shall be written to turn back the writings, the purposes of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, that he wrote to destroy the Jews that were in all the king's provinces:

⁸ And write ye for the Jews as is good in your eyes, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring: for the writing which was written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's signet ring, none to turn back. ⁹ And the king's scribes will be called in that time in the third month, (this the month Sivan) in the three and twentieth in it; and it will be written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the prefects, and the chiefs of the provinces which are from India and even to Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces, province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went forth from before the king in clothing of the kingdom, cerulean purple, and white, and a great crown of gold, and a wide robe of byssus and purple: and the city Shushan shouted and was glad:

¹² And the king will say to Esther the queen, In Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman: in the rest of the king's provinces what did they? and what thy asking? and it shall be given to thee: and what more thy seeking? and it shall be done. ¹³ And Esther will say, If good to the king, it shall be given also to-morrow to the Jews that are in Shusan to do according to the edict of the day, and they shall hang Haman's ten sons upon the tree. ¹⁴ And the king will say to do this. And the edict will be given in Shushan; and they hung the ten sons of Haman. ¹⁵ For the Jews that were in Shushan will gather together also in the fourteenth day to the month Adar, and they will kill in Shushan three hundred men; and upon the prey they sent not the hand.

³⁰ And he will send the letter to all the Jews, to the seventy and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,

¹⁰ Deck thyself now with majesty and grandeur, and thou shalt put on ornament and splendor.

⁵ Great his glory in thy salvation: majesty and honor thou wilt set upon him.

³ Gird thy sword upon the thigh, thou strong one in thy majesty and thine honor.

¹ Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?

¹ To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: chanting to Asaph song. In Judah was God known: great his name in Israel. ² And his booth shall be in peace, and his dwelling in Zion. ³ There he broke the lightnings of the bow, the shield and the sword, and war. Silence ⁴ Thou art light, being magnified from the mountains of fresh foliage.

⁵ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn as fire?

¹ Jehovah reigned, he put on majesty: Jehovah put on strength, he girded himself: also the habitable globe shall be prepared, it shall not be moved.

⁵ I will speak the splendor of the honor of thy majesty, and the words of thy wonders.

¹² To make known to the sons of man his powers, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom a kingdom of all times, and thy dominion in every generation and generation.

⁹ The heart of man will purpose his ways, and Jehovah will prepare his steps.

¹² The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance as dew upon the grass.

¹ Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise. ² The terror of the king growling as the young lion: he overflowing against him sinned against his soul.

²⁹ To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? ³⁰ To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses. ³² Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper. ³³ Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.

³⁰ Favor a falsehood, and beauty vanity: a woman fearing Jehovah, she shall be praised.

² Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart. ³ Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good. ⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness.

¹⁹ For laughter they make bread, and wine will gladden the living: and silver will answer with all.

¹ Wo to the land of the whizzing of wings, which is from beyond the rivers of Cush:

² A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease.

⁹ And he heard concerning Tirhakah, king of Cush, saying, He came forth to war with thee. And he will hear, and send messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

² And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and he will cause them to see the house of the spices, the silver and the gold and the aromatics, and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels: and all which was found in his treasures, there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see, in his house and in all his dominions.

⁷ Who shall not fear thee, thou king of the nations? for to thee he shall come: for among all the wise of the nations, and among all their kings, from none like thee.

⁸ And we will hear to the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab our father, for all which he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters;

⁷ Babel a cup of gold in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk: the nations drank from her wine; for this the nations will be foolish.

¹¹ Polish the arrows; fill the quivers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of the kings of the Males: for his purpose is against Babel, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

⁴¹ And thou wilt sit upon a splendid bed, and a table set in order before his face, and thou didst bring up there mine incense and mine oil.

⁵ By the multitude of thy wisdom, by thy traffic thou didst multiply thy wealth, and thine heart will be lifted up in thy wealth.

³ And the king will say to Ashpenaz the leader of his eunuchs to bring from the sons of Israel and from the seed royal, and from the nobles; ⁴ Children whom not any blemish in them, and good of aspect, and understanding in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding intelligence, and to whom power in them to stand in the king's temple, and to teach them the writing and tongue of the chaldees ⁵ And the king will allot to them the word of a day in its day from the king's dainties and from the wine of his drinking: and to nourish them three years, and from the end of three years they shall stand before the king.

¹⁸ And from the end of the days when the king said to bring them in, and the chief of the eunuchs will bring them in before Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁹ And the king will speak with them: and there was not found from all of them as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: and they will stand before the king.

² And the king will say to call to the sacred scribes, and to the enchanters, and to the sorcerers, and to the Chaldeans, to announce to the king his dreams. And they will come and stand before the king.

¹² For this cause the king was in dignant and greatly angry, and he spake to destroy to all the wise of Babel.

²⁷ Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret that the, king asked, not the wise men, the enchanters, the sacred scribes, the diviners, shall be able to show to the king;

³⁷ Thou, O king, a king of kings: for the God of the heavens gave to thee a kingdom strong and powerful, and splendid. ³⁸ And in all that the sons of men dwelt, the beasts of the open field and the birds of the heavens he gave into thine hand, and gave thee power over them all Thou this head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee shall arise another kingdom lower than thee, and another third kingdom of brass, that shall have power over all the earth. ⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because that iron beats small, and makes thin all: and as iron breaks all these, it shall beat small and break. ⁴¹ And that thou sawest the feet and toes, part of burnt clay of the potter, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; and from the firmness of iron to be in it, for which cause that thou sawest iron mingled with earthen-ware. ⁴² And the toes of the feet, part of iron, and part of burnt clay, from the end of the kingdom shall be strong, and part shall be cut asunder. ⁴³ That thou sawest the iron mingled with the earthen-ware, mingling for themselves with the seed of men: and not cleaving to them this with this, so as iron not mingling with burnt clay. ⁴⁴ And in their days that they are kings, the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed forever: and its kingdom shall be left to another people; it shall beat small and destroy all these kingdoms, and this shall stand forever.

² And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together to the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the chief judges, the treasurers, those skilled in law, the lawyers, and all the rulers of the provinces, to the drinking to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up. ³ At that time there being gathered together the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the chief judges, the treasurers, those skilled in law, the lawyers and all the rulers of the provinces, to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up; and standing before the image that Nebuchadnezzar set up.

¹³ At that time Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath, said to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then they brought these men before the king.

¹⁹ In that time Nebuchadnezzar being filled with wrath, and the form of the visage was changed to him against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego: he answered and said to heat to the furnace one seven times above that it was seen to be heated.

²⁹ { And an edict being set from me, That every people, nation and tongue, that shall say an error against their God, of Shadrach, Meshach, and AbedNego, shall be made pieces, and his house shall be set a dung-hill, because that there is no other God that shall be able to deliver according to this.}

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations and tongues, that dwell in all the earth, your peace shall become great

⁴ I Nebuchadnezzar, was secure in my house, and green in my temple:

⁶ And an edict being set from me to bring up before me to all the wise of Babel, that they shall make known to me the interpretation of the dream. ⁷ At that time the sacred scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners, coming in: and I told the dream before them: and its interpretation they making not known to me.

³⁰ The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

³⁶ In that time my knowledge will turn back to me: and for the honor of my kingdom, my splendor and my brightness will return to me; and my counselors and my nobles will seek to me: and I was established over my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

¹ Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine. ² Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine, to bring in for the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father brought forth from the temple that was in Jerusalem; and in them the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, will drink. ³ At that time they brought the vessels of gold that were brought forth from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and in them they drank, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.

⁷ The king called with strength to bring up the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise of Babel, Whatever man that shall read this writing, and will show to me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold upon his neck, and shall rule the third in the kingdom.

¹⁸ Thou, O king, God most high gave a kingdom and greatness and honor and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

²⁸ Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

¹ It pleased before Darius and he set up over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, whom to be over all the kingdom;

⁶ Then these presidents and satraps ran together with tumult to the king, and saying thus to him, O Darius the king, live thou forever. ⁷ All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and satraps, and counselors and governors, will counsel together to set up a statute of the kingdom, and to make strong an interdict that whoever shall seek a request from any God and man even to thirty days, except from thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. ⁸ Now, O king, wilt thou set up the interdict, and sign the writing, that not to be changed according to the law of Media and Persia, which shall not pass away. ⁹ For this cause, king Darius signed the writing and the interdict ¹⁰ And Daniel as soon as he knew that the writing was signed, went up into his house; and the windows being opened to him in his upper chambers before Jerusalem, three times in the day he kneeled upon his knees, and praying and praising before his God, for the cause that he did from before this ¹¹ Then these men ran together with tumult and found Daniel seeking and making supplication before his God. ¹² At that time they drew near, and saying before the king concerning the interdict of the king, Didst thou not sign an interdict that every man that shall seek from any God and man even for thirty days, except from thee, O King, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The word is certain, according to the law of Media and Persia, that shall not pass away. ¹³ At that time they answered, and saying before the king, That Daniel that is from the sons of the captivity of Judah set not up an account to thee, O king, and to the interdict that thou didst sign; and three times in the day he sought his requests. ¹⁴ Then the king as soon as he heard the word, was greatly displeased with himself, and upon Daniel he set the heart to set him free: and even to the going down of the sun he was exerting himself to deliver him. ¹⁵ At that time these men ran together with tumult to the king, and saying to the king, Know, O king, that the law to Media and Persia is, that every interdict and statute that the king shall set up is not to be changed.

¹⁷ And one stone was brought and set upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his signet ring, and with the signet ring of his nobles, that the will shall not be changed upon Daniel.

⁹ I was seeing even till thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, his garment white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne a flame of fire, his wheels a burning fire. ¹⁰ A river of fire flowed and went out from before him: thousands of thousands will wait upon him, and myriads of myriads will stand before him: the tribunal sat, and the books were opened. ¹¹ I was seeing at that time from the voice of the great words that the horn was speaking: I was seeing even till that the beast was killed and its body destroyed, and it was given to the burning fire. ¹² And the rest of the beasts they took away their power: and length in life was given to them for a season and time. ¹³ I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him. ¹⁴ And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.

² And I shall see in a vision; and it will be in my seeing, and I in Shushan the fortress, in Elam the province; and I shall see in a vision, and I was by the stream of strength.

²⁰ The ram which thou sawest possessing horns, the kings of Media and Persia.

¹ In one year to Darius son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of Media who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans.

⁸ And upon garments taken in pledge they will turn by every altar, and they will drink the wine of the amerced in the house of their God.

⁴ Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.

⁶ Before the face of his wrath who shall stand? and who will rise up in the burning of his anger? his wrath was poured out as fire, and the rocks were torn down from him.

¹⁵ Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness. ¹⁶ Thou wert satisfied with dishonor rather than honor: drink thou also and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn upon thee, and ignominy upon thy glory.

¹ And Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold the magi from the sunrisings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:

⁸ Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;

¹³ And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

³ And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot.

¹⁰ See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of my Father which is in the heavens.

²¹ And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons,, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee;

²¹ And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons,, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee; ²² And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee.

⁸ And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.

⁸ And he says to them, Draw now, and carry to the superintendent of the feast. And they carried.

⁵ And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, circumspect men, from every nation of those under heaven. ⁶ And there having been this voice, the multitude came together, and were disturbed, for each one heard them speaking in his own dialect. ⁷ And all were affected in mind and wondered, saying to one another, Behold, are not these speaking Galileans ⁸ And how hear we each in our own dialect, in which we were born? ⁹ Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ¹⁰ And Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near Cyrene, and Romans arriving as strangers, and Jews, and strangers, ¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.

¹⁴ And Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If therefore it were truly any injustice or wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against the word, I should have borne with you:

¹⁰ And Paul said, At Caesar's judgment seat am I standing where I must he judged: I injured the Jews nothing, as thou also knowest better.

²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory

⁷ Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But ye treat ill, and defraud, and that the brethren.

¹⁹ But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord;

²² Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²² Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

³³ But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

²⁷ To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹⁸ Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

¹² And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

⁴ That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children, ⁵ Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

¹ Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;

¹ Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word; ² Having beheld in fear your pure turning back. ³ Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement; ⁴ But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price. ⁵ For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands: ⁶ (As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror. ⁷ Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.

¹⁶ For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty. ¹⁷ For having received from God the Father honour and glory, and such a voice brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

¹¹ Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they are, and they were created.

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath has come; and who can stand?

⁴ And they shall see his face; and his name upon their foreheads.