Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
