But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThe fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
Genesis
LawFor thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
1 Kings
HistoryNow when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Matthew
GospelsSo he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Luke
GospelsThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWe will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
Leviticus
LawZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahCharity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahO God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryThe chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.