Proverbs 18:13

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To answer before listening—that is folly and shame.

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  • John 7:51 : 51 'Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?'
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 that wicked men have come out from among you and led the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods you have not known—
  • Prov 20:25 : 25 It is a trap for someone to dedicate something rashly and only later to reconsider their vows.
  • 2 Sam 16:4 : 4 Then the king declared to Ziba, "Everything that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours." Ziba said, "I humbly bow before you. May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king."
  • 2 Sam 19:24-30 : 24 The king said to Shimei, 'You shall not die.' And the king gave him his oath. 25 Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, also went down to meet the king. He had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned safely. 26 When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, 'Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?' 27 He said, 'My lord the king, my servant deceived me. I said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself and ride on it, so I may go with the king,’ because your servant is lame. 28 'Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God, so do what seems good to you.' 29 All my grandfather's descendants deserved nothing but death from my lord the king. But you placed your servant among those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king? 30 The king said to him, 'Why say more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba shall divide the land.'
  • Esth 3:10-15 : 10 So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, as well as the people, to do with them as it seems good to you." 12 On the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s scribes were summoned and an edict was written according to all that Haman commanded. It was addressed to the satraps of the king, to the governors of each province, and to the officials of every people, to each province in its script and to each people in its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, ordering the destruction, killing, and annihilation of all the Jews—young and old, children and women—in a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. 14 A copy of the edict was to be issued as a law in every province and made known to all the peoples, so that they would be ready for that day. 15 The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in the citadel of Susa. And while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in confusion.
  • Esth 8:5-9 : 5 She said, 'If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the matter seems right to the king, and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let a decree be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.' 6 For how can I bear to see the disaster that will fall on my people? How can I endure the destruction of my kindred? 7 King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.' 8 Now you may write in the king’s name concerning the Jews as you see fit and seal it with the king’s signet ring. For a document written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked. 9 The king’s scribes were summoned on that day, the third month (the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written exactly as Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps, governors, and officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush, each province in its own script and language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent the letters by mounted couriers riding fast horses bred from royal mares. 11 The king’s decree gave the Jews in every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions. 12 This was to take place on a single day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. 13 A copy of the written decree was to be issued as law in every province, publicly proclaimed to all people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. 14 The couriers riding the royal horses raced out in haste, pressed on by the king's command. The decree was also issued in the citadel of Susa. 15 Mordecai went out from the king's presence wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large golden crown, and a robe of fine linen and purple. The city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16 For the Jews, there was light and joy, gladness, and honor. 17 In every province and every city where the king's command and decree reached, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. And many of the peoples of the land became Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

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