“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.”

“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

“Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

“you have no right to accept money or clothes, olive orchards or vineyards, sheep or cattle, or servants. Because of what you’ve done, his leprosy will now be on you and your descendants forever!”

How can the king of Israel ridicule himself, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

“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.”

“So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. “

“Look! This Hebrew has come just to make fools of us. He tried to rape me, but I screamed for help.

“Sir, I begged you not to get my hopes up, and I didn’t even ask you for a son.”

“Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”