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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So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
John
GospelsIt is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
LawAnd delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Psalms
PoetryThy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Leviticus
LawThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHis offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
John
Gospels / JohnNotwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWe will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonMake haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.