⁴ And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

²⁰ And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

²¹ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.

²¹ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.

⁴ And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

²¹ And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

¹⁴ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

³² who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.