And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
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And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Genesis
Law / MosesThese are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Acts
History / LukeHe taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs
WisdomO give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mark
GospelsAnd I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiOf the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
LawAnd because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
Acts
History / LukeAnd these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job
WisdomHis seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psalms
PoetryFor rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
John
Gospels / JohnThere is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
John
GospelsNow the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThis also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Job
WisdomAnd a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.