Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
Ezra
HistorySo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
Numbers
Law / MosesEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah
Major Prophets(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTrouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
PoetryAlso that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth
History / SamuelWhen the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
WisdomBut Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Genesis
Law / MosesThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis
Law / MosesEven the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd many other things blasphemously spake they against him.