Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
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After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
Acts
History / LukeThen both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
LawSo Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLikewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke
Gospels / LukeThese see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude
General EpistlesGive wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James
General Epistles / JamesWherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Job
Wisdom / JobLover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
2 Kings
HistoryThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psalms
PoetryAaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
Genesis
LawAnd thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSince the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: