When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across (A)the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?”

As the word left the king’s mouth, they (B)covered Haman’s face.

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41 You sat on a stately (A)couch, with a table prepared before it, (B)on which you had set My incense and My oil.

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12 Thus says the Lord:

“As a shepherd [a]takes from the mouth of a lion
Two legs or a piece of an ear,
So shall the children of Israel be taken out
Who dwell in Samaria—
In the corner of a bed and [b]on the edge of a couch!

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:12 Or snatches
  2. Amos 3:12 Heb. uncertain, possibly on the cover

Who lie on beds of ivory,
Stretch out on your couches,
Eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall;

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