Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version “You will therefore do well not to put in execution the letters sent by Haman son of Hammedatha, Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect. 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, Esther 16:16 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 16:18 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. Esther 16:19 But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws. Context Esther 16…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. 18For 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.… Cross References 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 16:16 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 16:18 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. Esther 16:19 But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws. |