'Order' in the Bible

The messengers scurried forth with the king's order. The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar!

In every province where the order of the king and his edict reached, among the Jewish people there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and lamenting, and many lay down on sackcloth and ashes.

Mordecai told him everything that had happened and the exact amount of money that Haman had said he would pay into the king's treasury in order to destroy the Jewish people.

He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to plead with him for her people.

During that night the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I've found favor with him, and if the matter is proper in the king's opinion, and if I'm pleasing to the king, let an order be issued revoking the letters devised by Hammedatha the Agagite's son Haman, which ordered the destruction of the Jewish people throughout the king's provinces.

A copy of the writing, to be made public as an order in every division of the kingdom, was given out to all the peoples, so that the Jews might be ready when that day came to give punishment to their haters.

So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

In each and every province, and in each and every city, in the places where the king's order and edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jewish people, along with a festival and a holiday. Many of the people of the land became Jews, because they had come to fear the Jewish people.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the king's order and edict was about to be carried out, on the day when the enemies of the Jewish people expected to prevail over them, things were turned around so that the Jewish people themselves prevailed over those who hated them.

And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging of Haman's ten sons was effected.

The rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate their property.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their proper time just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and just as they had committed themselves and their descendants to the practices of fasting and lamentation.

The order of Esther established these instructions for Purim, and it was officially recorded.

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

“Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]?Will you contend and plead for God?

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

in order to turn a person from his actionsand suppress his pride.

in order to turn him back from the Pit,so he may shine with the light of life.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice;In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.

he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket.He lurks in order to seize the afflicted;he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.The helpless entrusts himself to You;You are a helper of the fatherless.

For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

Who among you desires life, and wants long life in order to see good?

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

On high, He summons heaven and earthin order to judge His people.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when Saul sent men to watch the house in order to kill him.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

But as for me, the approach to God [is] for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh [as] my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

In order that those you love may be rescued, deliver with your power and answer me!

For he did not think to show kindness,but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenheartedin order to put them to death.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

in order to seat them with nobles—with the nobles of His people.

How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless [those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless],Who walk in the law [and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will] of the Lord.

Confirm unto thy servant thy word, Which is in order unto the fear of thee.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

in order to make known your mighty acts to mankind as well as the majestic splendor of your kingdom.

He sends his command through the earth; swiftly his order reaches its destination.

Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

He set them in position forever and ever;He gave an order that will never pass away.

in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

[in order] to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful [ones].

[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

Listen, children, to your father's instruction, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

[in order] to endow those who love me [with] wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.

[in order] to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight [on] their way:

The teaching of the wise [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to avoid the snares of death.

The fear of Yahweh [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to turn from the snares of death.

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

[In order] for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made [them] known to you {today}--even you.

in order to teach you true and reliable words,so that you may give a dependable reportto those who sent you?

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.

When a country is rebellious it has many princes, but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained.

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

I have observed the burdens placed by God on human beings in order to perfect them.

I said to myself concerning the sons of men, “God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts.”

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffsBefore the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

"How terrible it will be for those who rise at dawn in order to grab a stiff drink, for those who stay up late at night as wine inflames them!

And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

So as to deprive the needy of justiceAnd rob the poor of My people of their rights,So that widows may be their spoilAnd that they may plunder the orphans.

He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear [the] shield!

The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan's fortresses.