Proverbs 18:13 Cross References - MLV

¹³ He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

¹⁴ then you will inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it is true and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in the midst of you,

⁴ Then the king said to Ziba, Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is your. And Ziba said, I bow-down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.

²⁴ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. ²⁵ And it happened, when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
²⁶ And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle for me a donkey, that I may ride on it and go with the king, because your servant is lame. ²⁷ And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is as a messenger of God; do therefore what is good in your eyes. ²⁸ For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king? ²⁹ And the king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land. ³⁰ And Mephibosheth said to the king, Yes, let him take all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.

¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. ¹¹ And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.
¹² Then the king's scribes were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it. And there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the governors who were over every province and to the rulers of every people, to every province according to the writing of it and to every people after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written. And it was sealed with the king's ring.
¹³ And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little sons and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
¹⁴ A copy of the writing that the decree should be given out in every province was proclaimed to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. ¹⁵ The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

⁵ And she said, If it please the king and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seem right before the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces. ⁶ For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
⁷ Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. ⁸ Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you*, in the king's name and seal it with the king's ring, for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
⁹ Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and rulers of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, a hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it and to every people after their language and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.
¹⁰ And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by post on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service bred of the stud, ¹¹ in which the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province who would assault them, their little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey, ¹² upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
¹³ A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was proclaimed to all the peoples and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. ¹⁴ So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
¹⁵ And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
¹⁶ The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. ¹⁷ And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy and I searched out the case of he whom I did not know.

²⁵ It is a snare to a man to say rashly, It is holy. And to make inquiry after vows.

⁹ Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

¹⁴ Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him. And he labored till the going down of the sun to rescue him.

⁵¹ Our law is not judging a man, if it does not hear from him beforehand and may know what he is doing, does it?