And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
Exodus
LawBut if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John
Gospels / JohnDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMany pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Genesis
LawIn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHis left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
Numbers
LawAll thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMoreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
Joshua
HistoryThen Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra
History / EzraKnowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesNow we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John
Gospels / JohnThe mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;