10 Then the king commanded (A)Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

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21 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
    he (A)turns it wherever he will.

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10 (A)All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,
    (B)but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

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Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, (A)I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows,[a] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:7 Or wooden beam (see note on 2:23)

And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, (A)she won favor in his sight, (B)and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

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