Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs
WisdomFor the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIt repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
Esther
HistoryBut he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel
HistoryUnto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThat the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalms
PoetryWhen I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Nehemiah
HistoryHeal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBrethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth
HistoryAnd Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
Judges
History / SamuelHis mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.