But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Deuteronomy
LawSeek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
Mark
GospelsAnd there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTake ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis
LawBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews
General EpistlesBecause he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
LawWho had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Esther
HistoryShe dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
WisdomSo Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
Leviticus
LawTake away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.