Deuteronomy 13:14
14then you shall inquire and make search and ask adiligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,2 Samuel 16:4
4Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”2 Samuel 19:24-30
24And bMephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety. 25And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, c“Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?” 26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate Saddle a donkey for me
that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For eyour servant is lame. 27 fHe has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is glike the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. 28For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but hyou set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?” 29And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.” 30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.” Esther 3:10-15
10 iSo the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman jthe Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, kthe enemy of the Jews. 11And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”12 lThen the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s msatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, nto every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written oin the name of King Ahasuerus pand sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13Letters were sent qby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction rto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, sin one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, tand to plunder their goods. 14 uA copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day. 15 vThe couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, wbut the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.
Esther 8:5-17
5And she said, “If it please the king, xand if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke ythe letters devised by Haman zthe Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. 6For how can I bear aato see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” 7Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, abI have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, ▼▼Or stake
because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 8But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, adand seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring aecannot be revoked.” 9 afThe king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to agthe satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces ahfrom India to Ethiopia, ai127 provinces, ajto each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. 10 akAnd he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus aland sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on amswift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud, 11saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city anto gather and defend their lives, aoto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, apand to plunder their goods, 12 aqon one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 arA copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. 14So the couriers, mounted on their asswift horses that were used in the king’s service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
15Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king atin royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown ▼
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and ava robe of fine linen and purple, awand the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16The Jews had axlight and gladness and joy and honor. 17And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and aya holiday. azAnd many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, bafor fear of the Jews had fallen on them. Job 29:16
16I was a father to the needy,and I searched out bbthe cause of him whom I did not know.
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