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  • Luke 8:3View Full Chapter

    Joanna (the wife of Herod’s servant Chuza), Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.

  • Susanna 1:2View Full Chapter

    His wife Susanna, Hilkiah’s daughter, was very beautiful and honored the Lord.

  • Susanna 1:7View Full Chapter

    When the people went away in the middle of the day, Susanna would walk around her husband’s private garden.

  • Susanna 1:15View Full Chapter

    15 When they were watching closely for the right moment, Susanna came by, just as she had the day before and the day before that, alone with her two female servants. She wanted to bathe in the privacy of the garden, since it was hot.

  • Susanna 1:22View Full Chapter

    22 Susanna groaned. “I’m trapped! If I do this, it’s death; but if I don’t, I still won’t escape your plotting.

  • Susanna 1:24View Full Chapter

    24 So Susanna screamed, and at the same time the two elders called out.

  • Susanna 1:26View Full Chapter

    26 When people in the house heard the shouting in the garden, they ran out through the side doors to see what had happened to Susanna.

  • Susanna 1:27View Full Chapter

    27 When the two elders had their say, the servants were very ashamed because nothing like this had ever been said about Susanna.

  • Susanna 1:28View Full Chapter

    28 The next day when the people came to her husband Joakim, the two elders came too, full of their immoral scheme to have Susanna killed. They said in front of the people,

  • Susanna 1:29View Full Chapter

    29 “Call Susanna, Hilkiah’s daughter, who is married to Joakim.” So they called her in.

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