1 Esdras 4:28

28 And now do you not believe me? "Is not the king great in his power? Do not all lands fear to touch him?

1 Esdras 4:28 In-Context

26 Many men have lost their minds because of women, and have become slaves because of them.

27 Many have perished, or stumbled, or sinned, because of women.

28 And now do you not believe me? "Is not the king great in his power? Do not all lands fear to touch him?

29 Yet I have seen him with Apame, the king's concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Bartacus; she would sit at the king's right hand

30 and take the crown from the king's head and put it on her own, and slap the king with her left hand.