The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”p>

Pharaoh liked Hadad so well<n id="1" /> he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes&#8217; sister) as a wife.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> God is our sovereign protector.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> bestows favor<n id="2" /> and honor;p> <p class="poetry">he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.<n id="3" />p>

Your<n id="1" /> servant has found favor with you,<n id="2" /> and you have shown me great<n id="3" /> kindness<n id="4" /> by sparing<n id="5" /> my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because<n id="6" /> this disaster will overtake<n id="7" /> me and I&#8217;ll die.<n id="8" />

&#8220;No, please take them,&#8221; Jacob said.<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I have found favor in your sight, accept<n id="2" /> my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me,<n id="3" /> it is as if I have seen the face of God.<n id="4" />

The time<n id="1" /> for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh<n id="2" /> and show me kindness and faithfulness.<n id="3" /> Do not bury me in Egypt,

<p class="bodytext">When the days of mourning<n id="1" /> had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh&#8217;s royal court,<n id="2" /> &#8220;If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">(Now the <sc>Lordsc> granted the people favor with<n id="1" /> the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh&#8217;s servants and by the Egyptian people.)<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;See, you have been saying to me, &#8216;Bring this people up,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, &#8216;I know you by name,<n id="2" /> and also you have found favor in my sight.&#8217;

For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

and said, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord<n id="1" /> go among us, for we<n id="2" /> are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.&#8221;p>

And Moses said to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Why have you afflicted<n id="1" /> your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that<n id="2" /> you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

<p class="bodytext">If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive<n id="1" /> in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, &#8220;Let me go<n id="1" /> to the fields so I can gather<n id="2" /> grain behind whoever permits me to do so.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Naomi<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;You may go, my daughter.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Taking an oath, David again<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Your father is very much aware of the fact<n id="2" /> that I have found favor with you, and he has thought,<n id="3" /> &#8216;Don&#8217;t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.&#8217; But as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!&#8221;

He said, &#8216;Permit me to go,<n id="1" /> for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged<n id="2" /> me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go<n id="3" /> to see my brothers.&#8217; For that reason he has not come to the king&#8217;s table.&#8221;p>

Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come<n id="1" /> at the time of a holiday. Please provide us &#8211; your servants<n id="2" /> and your son David &#8211; with whatever you can spare.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">David said to Achish, &#8220;If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?&#8221;

Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked<n id="1" /> the king. Joab said, &#8220;Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your<n id="2" /> servant!&#8221;p>

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she met with his loving approval<n id="1" /> more than all the other young women.<n id="2" /> So he placed the royal high turban on her head and appointed her queen<n id="3" /> in place of Vashti.