And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark
GospelsAnd it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
Judges
HistoryAnd other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
John
Gospels / JohnSo shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Proverbs
WisdomHe shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psalms
PoetryGod shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSurely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesHis troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job
WisdomAnd he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Acts
HistoryAnd the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis
Law / MosesMoreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThat he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Judges
HistoryI have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
1 Samuel
HistoryNow it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges
HistoryBlessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.