Esther 3:8

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Summary

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Scattered abroad

Their laws

Acts 28:22

General references

Psalm 83:4

Daniel 6:5

Bible References

Scattered abroad

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.

And Jehovah shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.

then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity. And He will have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations where Jehovah your God has scattered you.

I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men,

I pray You, remember the Word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations,

Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones.

Yet I will leave a remainder that may be left to you some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the lands.

Therefore say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Though I have sent them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the lands, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the lands where they had gone.

But I stormed them away on all the nations whom they did not know. And the land has been wasted behind them, from passing and from returning; for they made the land of desire a waste.

Then the Jews said among themselves, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the Dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting:

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, of Galatia, of Cappadocia, of Asia, and of Bithynia,

Their laws

let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have come to Jerusalem, and are building the rebellious and the evil city, and have set up its walls, and have joined the foundations.

And bringing them near to the judges, they said, These men, being Jews, are exceedingly troubling our city.

And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brothers before the city judges, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

But we think it right to hear from you what you think. For truly as concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.

General references

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more.

Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the Law of his God.