Proverbs 19:12

⁵I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

⁴“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.^[+] Yes, I tell you, fear him.

¹⁴The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it. ¹⁵In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

²The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

¹⁵As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

¹²Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. ¹³So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

¹⁹Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. ²⁰He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. ²²Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

³like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forever more.

⁴for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

⁸Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.