And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
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If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2 Kings
HistoryWhen wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs
WisdomFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
1 Kings
HistoryRejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua
HistoryThey go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Psalms
PoetryIn that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
Luke
GospelsTo another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Psalms
PoetrySimon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
John
Gospels / JohnWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSince the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOn the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
Acts
History(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,