¹⁰ So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

⁷ Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you.”

⁸ Then he cried out to me, “See, those who go toward the north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country.”^(A)

²⁴ The king gave a command, and those who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.^(A)

¹³ “My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I spend my fury on them.^(A)

Esther Becomes Queen

2 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.^(A)