What honour: Judges 1:12-13; 1 Samuel 17:25-26; 1 Chronicles 11:6; Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:16, Daniel 5:29; Acts 28:8-10
There is nothing: Genesis 40:23; Psalms 118:8-9; Ecclesiastes 9:15
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Esther 6:3
Esther 6:3
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