So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
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And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
Mark
GospelsAnd Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.
Acts
HistoryAnd Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Genesis
LawWith whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation
ApocalypticHowbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job
Wisdom / JobThou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHarness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThe woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
John
Gospels / JohnFor great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThe door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
Judges
History / SamuelNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.