ESTHER 2:12 Each young woman’s turn came to gain to King Ahasuerus aftershe had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulationsfor the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned:six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparationsfor beautifying women. To many Nebraskans,...

ESTHER 2:8-9 So it was, when the king’s command and decree were heard, and when many young women were gathered at Shushan the citadel, under the custody of Hegai, that Esther also wastaken to the king’s palace, into the care of Hegai the custodian of the women. Now the young...

ESTHER 2:7 And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman waslovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. One of the most monumental works in all the world...

ESTHER 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus subsided, be remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against her. A man never opened the car door for his wife nor did any of the other little niceties that wives appreciate. He felt such...

ESTHER 1:20-22 “When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will honor their husbands, both great and small.” And the reply pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan. Then...

ESTHER 1:17-18 “For the queen’s behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbandsin their eyes, when they report, King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come. This very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media...

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...