And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs
WisdomThey encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis
LawThose that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Psalms
PoetryClaudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Hebrews
General EpistlesLike a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew
GospelsAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 Kings
HistoryHis breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Exodus
LawFor they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Ezra
HistoryThus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAs for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.