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

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

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

²¹ Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

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

²¹ 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 to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. The thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

³² who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.