¹² not as ^(A)Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Saved in Fiery Trial

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai ^(A)did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was ^(B)filled with wrath. ⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman ^(C)sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and ^[a]struck the priests, and ^(A)killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. ^19 (B)Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep—with the edge of the sword.

²⁵ Now it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, ^(A)Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males. ²⁶ And they ^(B)killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went out.