ESTHER 1:10-12 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to...

ESTHER 1:1, 3-4 Now it came to passin the days of Ahasuerus (this wasthe Ahasuerus who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia). . . that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants-the powers of Persia...

DANIEL 12:3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. We are enamored with stars. When Robert Redford was in Santa Fe making a movie, a woman encountered him in an ice cream...

DANIEL 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.'” In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave covered with huge slabs of granite and marble and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It...

DANIEL 10:13-14 “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia with stood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand what will happen...

DANIEL 10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your word.” A young seminary graduate stepped up to the...

DANIEL 9:4-5 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “O lord, great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant and mercy with those who love him, and with those who keep his commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and...

DANIEL 9:1-2 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus; of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans-in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of...

DANIEL 7:9-10 I watched till thrones were put in place, and the ancient of days was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire; a fiery stream’, “issued and came...

DANIEL 7:1-3 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts. Daniel spoke, saying, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of...