Trouvé 896 Résultats pour: Great Distress
For my people and I have been delivered to destruction, slaughter and extinction. Had we been sold merely as male and female slaves, I would have said nothing, for our calamity would not be as great a loss to the king." (Esther 7, 4)
The Jew Mordecai was second in rank to King Ahasuerus; he was great among the Jews and esteemed by many of his brothers as the harbinger of peace and welfare for all his people. (Esther 10, 3)
And my nation is Israel, my people, who cried to God and were saved. Yes, the Lord has saved his people and delivered us from all these evils. God has worked such signs and great wonders as have never occurred among the nations. (Esther 10, 9)
On the first day of Nissan, in the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the Great, a dream came to Mordecai, son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Esther 11, 2)
as two great dragons came, both ready for combat. (Esther 11, 6)
On earth it was a day of darkness and gloom, tribulation and distress, affliction and great disturbance. (Esther 11, 8)
But they cried out to God, and a little spring appeared, from which grew a great river with a flood of water. (Esther 11, 10)
The text of the letter was as follows: The Great King Ahasuerus to the rulers of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia and to the governors under them: (Esther 13, 1)
As ruler of many nations and master of the whole world, I have resolved never to be carried away by the arrogance of power but always to rule with fairness and clemency, to provide for my subjects a life free of distress, and to restore the peace that all men desire by making my government humane and truly civilized as far as the borders of my kingdom. (Esther 13, 2)
Taking off her splendid robes, she put on garments of distress and mourning. In place of expensive perfumes, she covered her head with dirt and ashes. Humbling her body severely, she put aside all her festive adornments and left her hair disheveled. (Esther 14, 2)
The text of the letter read as follows: "The great King Ahasuerus to the satraps, governors and all our loyal subjects in the one hundred twenty-seven provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia: Greetings! (Esther 16, 1)
They are, in fact, children of the Most High, the great living God, who has made our kingdom prosperous for us and for our ancestors. (Esther 16, 16)