Quotes about Decree

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.

Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.