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But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureStairwaysPoolsNamed GatesStepsGardens Attached To Palaces

After him held fast Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, sixth son of Zalaph, the second measure. After him held fast Meshullam son of Berechiah before his cell.

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Verse ConceptsCessationNot Knowing The FutureAttempting To Kill Specific Peopleteammates

Now our flesh (skin) is the same as that of our brothers (relatives), and our children are like their children, yet here we are forcing (selling) our sons and our daughters to be slaves; and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are powerless [to redeem them] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersBodyPower, HumanLike People By NatureNo Earthly Inheritance

And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationShutting DoorsMeeting PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleRebuilding The Temple

On the twenty-fourth day of this month the {Israelites} gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them.

Verse ConceptsClothAsceticism, TypesRepentance, Examples OfSackcloth And AshesFasting, Accompanied ByMonth 7FastingFasting And Prayer

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness


“Indeed, for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,
Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

Verse ConceptsClothingThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsThings Wearing OutGod Providing

and they captured fortified cities and a fat soil, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, wells digged, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit-trees, in abundance, - so they did eat and were filled and became fat, and luxuriated in thy great goodness.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsAbundance, MaterialDelighting, Right Kinds OfOlivesVineyardWellsTaking PossessionCapturing Cities

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdisrespectChallengesIngratitudeMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom, Reasons ForUnfaithfulness, To GodCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Nature OfRebellion Against God, Shown InKilling ProphetsBreaking God's Law

And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

Verse ConceptsAgreementLiteracyWritingCovenant RelationshipsLater Covenants With God

Now these were the names on the sealed document: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah. And Zedekiah,

Verse ConceptsGovernorsSealing Things

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

We [also] bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFirst fruitsResponsibility

And we bring the best of our dough, our offerings, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and olive oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and [to bring] the tithe of our soil to the Levites, for the Levites [receive] the tithes in all of our rural towns.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestGrindingFractions, One TenthTithesFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

And he will make for him a great cell, and there before them were given the gifts, the frankincense and the vessels, and the tenth of the grain of the new wine and the new oil, (the command of the Levites, and those singing, and the gate-keepers,) and the oblations of the priests.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersTithesMeat offerings

And I shall come to Jerusalem, and I shall understand upon the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah to prepare for him a cell in the enclosures of the house of God.

And it will be greatly evil to me: and I shall cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without from the cell.

In those days, saw I in Judah - some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves and lading asses, moreover also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, which they were bringing into Jerusalem on the sabbath day, - so I protested against it, as a day for them to sell provisions.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFig treeAgriculture, TermsGrapesReformationRest, PhysicalWinepressFigsTreading GrapesSabbath Violated

And, men of Tyre, dwelt therein, who were bringing in fish - and every kind of ware for sale, - and were selling, on the sabbath, to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem;

Verse ConceptsSabbath Violated

Once or twice the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,

Then the king removed his signet ring from his hand [that is, the special ring which was used to seal his letters] and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

The king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and all that Haman commanded was written to the regional authorities of the king, to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of each people. This order was translated in the name of King Ahasuerus into the language of each province and bore the seal of the king's signet ring.

Verse ConceptsProvincesSealing The MessageAlphabet

And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: 'Do not think in thy soul to be delivered in the house of the king, more than all the Jews,

Verse Conceptsfate

And Esther the queen will answer and say, If I found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if good to the king, my soul shall be given to me in my asking, and my people in my seeking

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeJews Under Threat

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

Verse ConceptsPeople Being SilentMaking SlavesKilling Israelitesrisk

And the king rose up in his wrath from the drinking of wine, to the garden of the palace: and Haman stood up to seek out for his soul from Esther the queen; for he saw that evil was completed for him from the king.

Verse ConceptsAmbivalenceDecadenceSeeking LifeGardens Attached To PalacesNamed People Angry With Others

Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

Verse ConceptsSealing The Message

And he will write in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the king's signet ring; and he will send letters by the hand of runners on horses riding the courser, the mules, sons of mares:

Verse ConceptsMulesSealing The MessageRiding Horses

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

Verse ConceptsPurimRules About Booty

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with a sore slaughter, and slew and destroyed, and did after their will unto such as were their adversaries.

and slew Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.

Verse ConceptsTen People

And the king will say to Esther the queen, In Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman: in the rest of the king's provinces what did they? and what thy asking? and it shall be given to thee: and what more thy seeking? and it shall be done.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

Verse ConceptsThree To Four HundredMonth 12Three Hundred And AboveNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

Verse ConceptsFifty To Ninety ThousandJews Under ThreatHating PeoplesNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

to establish these days of the Purim, in their set times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined upon them, and according as they had enjoined upon their own soul, and upon their seed, - the story of the fastings and of their outcry.

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

Then the Sabeans {attacked}, and they took them, and they slew the servants {by the edge of the sword}. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of EscapingLossActing Alone

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Verse ConceptsCamelsActing AloneThree GroupsWhile Still SpeakingTaking Animals

And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInciting To EvilServants Of The LordFear Of God, Examples OfUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godshunning

And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfFalse Accusations, Examples OfHuman SkinSeeking LifeOld Sayings

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsHardship

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

Verse ConceptsNot Touching

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartBeing BitterResentment, Against GodAnguish, Cause

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Verse ConceptsSalivaGod Seeing All PeopleLeave Us Alone

If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

"Indeed, this is the benefit of God's way: from the soil other plants will sprout.

Verse ConceptsCreatures From Dust

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfPlea Of Innocence

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfDoubting God's JusticeDespair

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

Verse ConceptsGod Destroying

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

Verse ConceptsDamage To The Bodyrisk

If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,


Water wears away the stones,
Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,
So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterThings Wearing OutWithout Hope


“They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness,
And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud.”

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NatureMischief

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, - For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

Verse ConceptsRocksGod Is JustPeople Torn To Pieces

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Verse ConceptsTeeth

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Verse ConceptsDrawbacks To Riches

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Verse ConceptsBitterness


“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersDebtorsPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The PoorTaking Other PeopleMotherhoodPurgatorybaby

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Verse ConceptsPurgatory

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

Verse ConceptsMurderNightRising EarlySecret SinsNot Helping The Poor

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

Verse ConceptsTasteIs God Unjust?Bitterness

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes Of

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Verse ConceptsLossWeather, As God's JudgmentNot ProsperingLosing Honour

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Verse ConceptsDepression

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

Verse ConceptsDisappointmentA Broken Heart

Then was kindled the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram, - against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;

Verse ConceptsJustification, Necessity OfSelf Righteousness, And The GospelPeople In RighteousnessNamed People Angry With Others

Then, uncovereth he the ear of men, and, on their correction, affixeth a seal;

Verse ConceptsThe Faculty Of Hearingmovement

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Verse ConceptsPitsSaved From The Pit