And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exodus
LawThere is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings
HistoryIn those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
Numbers
Law / MosesThe conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Proverbs
WisdomThen there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts
History / LukeThe sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James
General EpistlesAnd he arose, and departed to his house.
Matthew
GospelsFor by it the elders obtained a good report.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.