Es 1:18This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will say the same to all the king’s officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.Es 2:14In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.Es 2:9And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.Da 5:10The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.2Sa 15:16So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.Es 1:17For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’Pr 25:6Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great,Jer 13:18Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”1Ki 21:5But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”Es 5:12Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.1Ki 1:4The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.Es 1:12But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.Es 4:4When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.Ge 12:15And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.Mt 27:19Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”1Ki 11:3He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.So 6:8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.1Ki 1:15So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).Es 7:8And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.Es 1:11to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.1Ki 2:19So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.2Ch 9:4the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.Ezr 4:22And take care not to be slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?”1Ki 10:5the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.Es 2:11And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.1Ki 3:16Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.1Ki 14:17Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.De 28:56The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,Job 13:11Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?Es 2:1After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.Es 5:10Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.2Sa 14:4When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”Ps 45:14In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her.Es 2:15When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.Es 5:1On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.Es 2:17the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.Es 7:6And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.Es 2:8So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.1Ki 1:50And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went and took hold of the horns of the altar.Es 2:13when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.Ps 45:11and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.1Ki 1:19He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he has not invited.1Sa 1:6And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.1Ki 11:9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice1Ki 1:2Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”De 17:17And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.Es 6:13And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”1Ki 2:20Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”Es 2:4And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.Pr 19:10It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.2Sa 14:18Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”Es 6:14While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.Es 7:1So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.Es 5:2And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.Es 1:19If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.2Sa 13:18Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.Ec 10:4If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.Es 8:4When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king.Ac 25:23So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.1Sa 1:16Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”2Sa 12:17And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.Es 1:10On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,1Sa 4:20And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.Es 6:5And the king’s young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”Es 3:3Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”Es 6:12Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.2Sa 19:19and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.2Sa 20:3And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.1Ki 11:19And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.Es 8:3Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.Es 9:4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.2Sa 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.Ge 31:35And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.Jud 19:2And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.2Ch 8:11Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”Es 4:11“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”2Ch 9:7Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!2Ki 1:11Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”Ge 41:4And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke.Ec 8:3Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.Es 2:3And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.2Sa 11:27And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.1Ki 1:26But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.Pr 14:35A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.Da 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.2Sa 14:7And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”2Ch 24:17Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.1Ki 1:28Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.2Sa 20:16Then a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, ‘Come here, that I may speak to you.’”Ge 39:10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.2Sa 6:20And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”1Ki 1:47Moreover, the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.Es 2:2Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.Job 31:10then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her.2Sa 14:29Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.2Sa 14:24And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king’s presence.1Ki 1:22While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.Es 3:2And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.Pr 30:23an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.2Sa 19:7Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”