Esther 1:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

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  • Ezek 23:41 : 41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;
  • Esth 7:8 : 8 Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.
  • Esth 8:15 : 15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.
  • Exod 26:1 : 1 And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.
  • Exod 26:31-32 : 31 And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: 32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.
  • Exod 26:36-37 : 36 And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red. 37 And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

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  • Esth 1:7
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    7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

  • Esth 1:2-5
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    77%

    2 That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

    3 In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

    4 And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

    5 And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house.

  • Exod 38:16-19
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    75%

    16 All the hangings were of the best linen.

    17 And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

    18 And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

    19 There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

  • Prov 7:16
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    16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

  • Esth 8:15
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    15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.

  • Exod 26:36-37
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    71%

    36 And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

    37 And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

  • 2 Chr 3:5-7
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    71%

    5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

    6 And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7 All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

  • Esth 1:10
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    10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,

  • Exod 36:35-38
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    35 And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

    36 And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

    37 And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

    38 And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

  • Exod 27:16-17
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    70%

    16 And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

    17 All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

  • 1 Kgs 10:18
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    18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • Song 3:10
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    10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

  • Exod 26:1
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    1 And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

  • Exod 38:9-10
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    69%

    9 To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:

    10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

  • Exod 39:2-3
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    2 The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;

    3 Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.

  • Rev 18:12
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    12 Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;

  • 2 Chr 9:17
    69%

    17 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • Exod 28:5
    69%

    5 They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,

  • 2 Chr 3:14
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    14 And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

  • Exod 35:6
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    6 And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

  • Exod 36:8
    68%

    8 Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

  • Exod 26:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31 And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

    32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

  • Exod 25:4
    68%

    4 And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

  • Esth 7:8
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    8 Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

  • 1 Kgs 6:21
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    21 Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

  • Ezek 27:7
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    7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

  • Ezek 23:41
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    41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • Dan 5:3-4
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    68%

    3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.

    4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

  • Exod 39:40
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    40 The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

  • Esth 6:1
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    1 That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

  • Exod 39:24
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    24 The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.

  • Amos 6:4
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    4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;