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Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Esdras, a scribe most learned in the law of the God of heaven, health and greeting. (Ezra 7, 12)
Sinful fathers begot us, sinners are we to this day; in vain have we fallen a prey, we and our kings and our priests, to the power of Gentile kings, to massacre, exile, rapine, and the humiliation that is with us now. (Ezra 9, 7)
Slaves we were, but in our slavery the Lord did not abandon us; he deigned to win us the favour of the Persian king; we were to live still, the house of our God was to rise anew, restored from its ruins, Juda and Jerusalem should have a wall to defend them. (Ezra 9, 9)
but it was their sons that reached the goal. At their coming, thou didst crush the pride of the Chanaanites that dwelt here, kings and people alike were a prey for the conqueror, left at his mercy. (Nehemiah 9, 24)
The harvests ripen for alien kings, our masters now in punishment of our guilt; our bodies, our beasts are theirs, to treat as they will, and oppression is all about us. (Nehemiah 9, 37)
Kings have their counsel that must be kept secret; God’s ways are open, and he honours them best who proclaims them openly. (Tobit 12, 7)
all the kings of the earth will take pride in it, as they pay worship to the king who reigns in Israel.✻ (Tobit 14, 9)
So it was they overthrew kings a many, Chanaanite and Jebusite, Pherezite and Hethite and Hevite; the Amorrhite king, too, and all the warrior chiefs of Hesebon; took possession of their lands, and garrisoned their cities. (Judith 5, 20)
Stood Persian, stood Mede aghast at the boldness of her resolve; (Judith 16, 12)
It was now the third year of his reign, and he held high feast for all his lords and vassals; Persian warriors, Median notables, and the governor of every province, were his guests. (Esther 1, 3)
But to our matter. We took under our protection, some time since, one Aman, son of Amadathi, a stranger; a Macedonian by race, with no share of our Persian blood, a Macedonian in his nature, whose cruel temper sorts ill with our Persian kindliness.✻ (Esther 16, 10)
with the old kings and senators, that once restored cities for their whim,✻ (Job 3, 14)
