Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version and are children of the living God, most high, most mighty, who has directed the kingdom both for us and for our ancestors in the most excellent order. Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day. Esther 16:14Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians. Esther 16:15 But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws, Esther 16:17 Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect. Esther 16:18 For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved. Context Esther 16…15But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws, 16And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day. 17Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect.… Cross References Esther 16:14 Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians. Esther 16:15 But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws, Esther 16:17 Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect. Esther 16:18 For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved. |