Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis
LawAnd Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
Judges
History / SamuelLet the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
John
Gospels / JohnEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySo the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNow if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Psalms
PoetryTo Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
1 Samuel
HistorySo they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
2 Kings
HistoryHave mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.