Passage cross-references.

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, …

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem: …

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.