And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMany therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
Judges
HistoryAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsMine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John
General EpistlesLet darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job
WisdomAnd they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesMy little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThe sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exodus
Law / MosesNeither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIf a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;