For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
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Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exodus
LawThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesHereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
John
Gospels / JohnFor the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryNeither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Leviticus
LawThen the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts
HistoryAnd Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
1 Samuel
HistoryRighteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryMaaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Exodus
Law / MosesI wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms
PoetryFor her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThe punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahO thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.