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He asked them, "According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti for disobeying the king's order issued through the eunuchs?" (Esther 1, 15)
The royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's order?" (Esther 3, 3)
these dispatches were sent by couriers to all the royal provinces with the order to kill, destroy and wipe out all the Jews - young and old, women and children - on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. (Esther 3, 13)
The king gave the order: "Call Haman at once so that Esther may have her wish." So the king and Haman went to the banquet prepared by Esther. (Esther 5, 5)
"If it please your majesty, if I am pleasing to your eyes and have found favor with you, and if you think it proper to do so, let an order be issued revoking the letters which Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the royal provinces. (Esther 8, 5)
The royal scribes were summoned that very day, the twenty-third of the third month of Sivan, and as Mordecai dictated they wrote an order to the Jews, to the satraps, governors and officials of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia, to each province in its own script, to each people in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. (Esther 8, 9)
When the day came for the order of the king to be carried out - the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, on which the enemies of the Jews had expected to crush them - the reverse happened, for it was the Jews who got the upper hand over those who sought their harm. (Esther 9, 1)
The Jews agreed to observe annually this celebration instituted on Mordecai's written order. (Esther 9, 23)
These days, therefore, have been called Purim after the word pur. Because of this written order and of what they had seen and experienced, (Esther 9, 26)
By order of the king, these events were recorded by Mordecai (Esther 12, 4)
Who is this that obscures divine plans with ignorant words? (Job 38, 2)
Can you raise your voice to the clouds and order their waters to pour down? (Job 38, 34)
