Quotes About Unity

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.

So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecaiís orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the kingís administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,

For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.

Jobís sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.