'Orders' in the Bible
The drinking was done according to the law, there was no compulsion, for so the king had given orders to each official of his household that he should do according to the desires of each person.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,
What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?
For the matter concerning the queen will spread to all the women, leading them to treat their husbands with contempt, saying, 'When King Ahasuerus gave orders to bring Queen Vashti into his presence, she would not come.'
Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.
Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.
Esther still had not revealed her birthplace or her ethnic background, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.
And all the king's servants who were in the king's house went down to the earth before Haman and gave him honour: for so the king had given orders. But Mordecai did not go down before him or give him honour.
Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.
When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her [what had happened], the queen was seized by great fear. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he would remove his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.
Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.
During that night the king's sleep escaped [him], and he gave orders to bring the {scroll of records and chronicles}, and they were read before the king.
And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:
Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.
The king gave the orders for this to be done, so a law was announced in Susa, and they hung the bodies of Haman’s 10 sons.
And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;
But when the matter came to the king's attention, the king gave written orders that Haman's evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.
Search Results by Versions
Search Results by Book
- Genesis (19)
- Exodus (51)
- Leviticus (34)
- Numbers (47)
- Deuteronomy (81)
- Joshua (37)
- Judges (8)
- Ruth (2)
- 1 Samuel (17)
- 2 Samuel (16)
- 1 Kings (30)
- 2 Kings (31)
- 1 Chronicles (18)
- 2 Chronicles (33)
- Ezra (22)
- Nehemiah (14)
- Esther (18)
- Job (7)
- Psalm (35)
- Isaiah (14)
- Jeremiah (34)
- Lamentations (4)
- Ezekiel (22)
- Daniel (18)
- Amos (3)
- Nahum (1)
- Zechariah (1)
- Malachi (1)
Related Words
- Ord (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Ordain (18 instances in 12 translations)
- Ordained (91 instances in 12 translations)
- Ordaineth (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Ordains (3 instances in 4 translations)
- Ordeal (2 instances in 6 translations)
- Order (1365 instances in 13 translations)
- Ordered (429 instances in 13 translations)
- Ordereth (1 instance in 3 translations)
- Ordering (48 instances in 11 translations)
- Orderings (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Orderly (11 instances in 11 translations)
- Ordinance (95 instances in 11 translations)
- Ordinances (145 instances in 12 translations)
- Ordinarily (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Ordinary (37 instances in 12 translations)
- Ordination (15 instances in 6 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Club (15 instances)
- Decree (141 instances)
- Edict (43 instances)
- Guild (13 instances)
- Lodge (69 instances)
- Order (1365 instances)
- Ordering (48 instances)
- Orders (793 instances)
- Ordination (15 instances)
- Rescript (1 instance)
- Society (11 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Choq
Yacad
Kuwn
Mishneh
Mishpat
`arak
`erek
P@quddah
Suwm
Horizo
Prographo