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Esther 3:3
Then the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

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Genesis 24:52
When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

Genesis 43:28
They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

1 Kings 19:18
Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

Mark 15:19
They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

Romans 11:4
But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Romans 14:10
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Romans 14:11
For it is written, “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’ ”

Philippians 2:10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

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Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Matthew 15:2
“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Matthew 15:3
He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

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Esther 2:5
There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Esther 2:19
When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Esther 2:21
In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 5:11
Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 5:13
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esther 9:3
All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

Esther 10:3
For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his descendants.

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Esther 3:7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 3:9
If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 3:10
The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

Esther 3:11
The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 3:12
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 3:14
A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3:15
The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Esther 4:7
Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

Esther 8:5
She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seems right to 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 who are in all the king’s provinces.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

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Esther 6:6
So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

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Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Psalms 37:7
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Psalms 49:5
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

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Matthew 22:21
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

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