In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms
PoetryAnd John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Acts
HistoryCome and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
Numbers
LawAnd all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOr if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Acts
HistoryConcerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Psalms
PoetryWho came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
Luke
GospelsBehold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus
LawAnd the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
1 Kings
HistoryThe voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThough thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.