Then he directed them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.

So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations –

The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

The one who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but whoever esteems instruction will be rewarded.

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife,

When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” He replied, “For you, O officer.”

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Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.