favour.

以斯帖記 4:14
此時你若閉口不言，猶大人必從別處得解脫蒙拯救，你和你父家必致滅亡。焉知你得了王后的位分，不是為現今的機會嗎？」

撒母耳記上 2:8
他從灰塵裡抬舉貧寒人，從糞堆中提拔窮乏人，使他們與王子同坐，得著榮耀的座位。地的柱子屬於耶和華，他將世界立在其上。

詩篇 75:6,7
因為高舉非從東，非從西，也非從南而來；…

詩篇 113:7,8
他從灰塵裡抬舉貧寒人，從糞堆中提拔窮乏人，…

以西結書 17:24
田野的樹木都必知道我耶和華使高樹矮小，矮樹高大，青樹枯乾，枯樹發旺。我耶和華如此說，也如此行了。』」

路加福音 1:48-52
因為他顧念他使女的卑微。從今以後，萬代要稱我有福，…

Bishop Patrick observes, that those who suggest that Esther committed a great sin to come at the dignity of queen of Persia, do not consider the custom of those times and countries. Every one that the king took to his bed was married to him, and was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was to Abraham.