Quotes About Sacrifice

Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

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

“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king inquired. “What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you.”

And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the kingís entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Hamanís house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Hamanís estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.