TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in ASV.
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,