And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
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And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Job
Wisdom / JobIn his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
Psalms
PoetryI am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation
ApocalypticGo and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
John
GospelsBehold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIt is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.