Esther 6:12
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12 Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.(A)
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2 Samuel 15:30
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30 But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and walking barefoot, and all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.(A)
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Jeremiah 14:3-4
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3 Her[a] nobles send their servants for water;
they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
they return with their vessels empty.
They are ashamed and dismayed
and cover their heads,(A)
4 because the ground is cracked.
Because there has been no rain on the land,
the farmers are dismayed;
they cover their heads.(B)
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- 14.3 Gk: Heb their
Job 20:5
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5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
1 Kings 21:4
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4 Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.(A)
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Psalm 131:1-2
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Psalm 131
Song of Quiet Trust
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.(A)
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.[a](B)
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- 131.2 Or my soul within me is like a weaned child
Job 9:24
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24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the eyes of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?(A)
Esther 7:8
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8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Esther was reclining, and the king said, “Will he even violate the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.(A)
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Esther 2:19
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Mordecai Discovers a Plot
19 When the virgins were being gathered together,[a] Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
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- 2.19 Heb adds a second time
2 Chronicles 26:20
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20 When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was diseased on his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.
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1 Kings 20:43
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43 The king of Israel set out toward home, resentful and sullen, and came to Samaria.(A)
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2 Samuel 17:23
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23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.(A)
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1 Samuel 3:15
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15 Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
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