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1 Esdras 2:18 | View Chapter | Context

Be it now known to the lord king, that the Jews that are up from you to us, being come into Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked city, do build the marketplaces, and repair the walls of it and do lay the foundation of the temple.

1 Esdras 2:21 | View Chapter | Context

But to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be thy pleasure it may be sought out in the books of thy fathers:

1 Esdras 2:24 | View Chapter | Context

Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and Phenice.

1 Esdras 2:25 | View Chapter | Context

Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice, after this manner;

1 Esdras 2:30 | View Chapter | Context

Then king Artexerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste toward Jerusalem with a troop of horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

1 Esdras 3:3 | View Chapter | Context

And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and soon after awaked.

1 Esdras 3:4 | View Chapter | Context

Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king's body, spake one to another;

1 Esdras 3:5 | View Chapter | Context

Let every one of us speak a sentence: he that shall overcome, and whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, unto him shall the king Darius give great gifts, and great things in token of victory:

1 Esdras 3:8 | View Chapter | Context

And then every one wrote his sentence, sealed it, and laid it under king Darius his pillow;

1 Esdras 3:9 | View Chapter | Context

And said that, when the king is risen, some will give him the writings; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as was appointed.

1 Esdras 3:11 | View Chapter | Context

The second wrote, The king is strongest.

1 Esdras 3:13 | View Chapter | Context

Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and delivered them unto him, and so he read them:

1 Esdras 3:19 | View Chapter | Context

It maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

1 Esdras 3:21 | View Chapter | Context

And it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

1 Esdras 4:1 | View Chapter | Context

Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,

1 Esdras 4:3 | View Chapter | Context

But yet the king is more mighty: for he is lord of all these things, and hath dominion over them; and whatsoever he commandeth them they do.

1 Esdras 4:5 | View Chapter | Context

They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king's commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.

1 Esdras 4:6 | View Chapter | Context

Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbundry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king.

1 Esdras 4:12 | View Chapter | Context

O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

1 Esdras 4:14 | View Chapter | Context

O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? are they not women?

1 Esdras 4:15 | View Chapter | Context

Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.

1 Esdras 4:28 | View Chapter | Context

And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

1 Esdras 4:29 | View Chapter | Context

Yet did I see him and Apame the king's concubine, the daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the king,

1 Esdras 4:30 | View Chapter | Context

And taking the crown from the king's head, and setting it upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand.

1 Esdras 4:31 | View Chapter | Context

And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

1 Esdras 4:33 | View Chapter | Context

Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth.

1 Esdras 4:37 | View Chapter | Context

Wine is wicked, the king is wicked, women are wicked, all the children of men are wicked, and such are all their wicked works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.

1 Esdras 4:42 | View Chapter | Context

Then said the king unto him, Ask what thou wilt more than is appointed in the writing, and we will give it thee, because thou art found wisest; and thou shalt sit next me, and shalt be called my cousin.

1 Esdras 4:43 | View Chapter | Context

Then said he unto the king, Remember thy vow, which thou hast vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when thou camest to thy kingdom,

1 Esdras 4:46 | View Chapter | Context

And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of thee, and this is the princely liberality proceeding from thyself: I desire therefore that thou make good the vow, the performance whereof with thine own mouth thou hast vowed to the King of heaven.