As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs
WisdomDavid also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawAnd the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Numbers
Law / MosesSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
WisdomAnd out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
Numbers
LawAnd the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Exodus
Law / MosesBut I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
Exodus
LawAnd he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
Mark
GospelsAnd it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: