“Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”

“This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble. "

“The fire and wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

“How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

"Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste"

“There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples...Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”

My father Gideon risked his life for you when he fought to rescue you from the Midianites. Did you reward Gideon by being kind to his family? No, you did not! You attacked his family and killed all seventy of his sons

“What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”

“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

“If you will let me marry your daughter, I’ll work seven years for you.”

“In our country the older daughter must get married first..you will have to work for me another seven years.”