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Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“ She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
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2 Kings 18 21
Now look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.
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Proverbs 6:29
So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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Psalms 105:4
Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
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Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
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Jeremiah 46:17
There they will cry out,“ Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he let the opportune moment pass.”
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Exodus 2:15
When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.
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Ezekiel 32:2
“ Son of man, lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,‘ You compare yourself to a lion of the nations, but you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churn up the waters with your feet, and muddy the rivers.
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Jeremiah 25:19
Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,
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Exodus 2:5
Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it,
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Genesis 41:1
At the end of two years Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
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1 Kings 3 1
Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brought her to the city of David until he finished building his palace, the LORD’s temple, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.
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Esther 2:2-16
The king’s personal attendants suggested,“ Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.Let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom, so that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem at the fortress of Susa. Put them under the supervision of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, and give them the required beauty treatments.Then the young woman who pleases the king will become queen instead of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he did accordingly.In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite.Kish had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah of Judah into exile.Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin Hadassah( that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.When the king’s command and edict became public knowledge and when many young women were gathered at the fortress of Susa under Hegai’s supervision, Esther was taken to the palace, into the supervision of Hegai, keeper of the women.The young woman pleased him and gained his favor so that he accelerated the process of the beauty treatments and the special diet that she received. He assigned seven hand-picked female servants to her from the palace and transferred her and her servants to the harem’s best quarters.Esther did not reveal her ethnicity or her family background, because Mordecai had ordered her not to make them known.Every day Mordecai took a walk in front of the harem’s courtyard to learn how Esther was doing and to see what was happening to her.During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the palace.She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of the king’s eunuch Shaashgaz, keeper of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless he desired her and summoned her by name.Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, suggested. Esther gained favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.She was taken to King Ahasuerus in the palace in the tenth month, the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
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Genesis 40:2
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
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Hosea 7:4-5
All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine— there is a conspiracy with traitors.