And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThat walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBlessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Matthew
GospelsWherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Numbers
LawThe men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
2 Samuel
HistoryLet us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.