In three days the king will release you, pardon you, and restore you to your position. You will give him his cup as you did before when you were his wine steward.

In three days the king will release you---and have your head cut off! Then he will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh."

The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast.

In the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his officials and administrators. The armies of Persia and Media were present, as well as the governors and noblemen of the provinces.

Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.

On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced in front of the whole group. Herod was so pleased

Finally Herodias got her chance. It was on Herod's birthday, when he gave a feast for all the top government officials, the military chiefs, and the leading citizens of Galilee.

In three days the king will release you, pardon you, and restore you to your position. You will give him his cup as you did before when you were his wine steward.

In three days the king will release you---and have your head cut off! Then he will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh."

In the year that Evilmerodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as prisoner.

because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts.

The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt.

"After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

Jesus said to his disciples, "There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master's money,

so he called him in and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.'