Exodus 1:10
10 aCome, blet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”Esther 3:6-9
6But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.7In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, cthey cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is dthe month of Adar. 8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. eTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ▼
▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.” Proverbs 1:12
12like Sheol let us gswallow them alive,and whole, like hthose who go down to the pit;
Jeremiah 11:19
19But I was ilike a gentle lambled to the slaughter.
I did not know jit was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
klet us cut him off from lthe land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”
Jeremiah 31:36
36 m“If this fixed order departsfrom before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
Daniel 7:25
25 nHe shall speak words against the Most High,and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,
and shall think to ochange the times and the law;
and they shall be given into his hand
for pa time, times, and half a time.
Matthew 27:62-66
The Guard at the Tomb
62The next day, that is, after the day of qPreparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63and said, “Sir, we remember how rthat impostor said, while he was still alive, s‘After three days I will rise.’ 64Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, tlest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” 65Pilate said to them, “You have ua guard ▼▼Or Take a guard
of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66So they went and made the tomb secure by wsealing the stone and setting a guard.
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