And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThen answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel
Major ProphetsPerverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryBecause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers
LawHowl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryThe firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Joshua
HistoryThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd 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
LawAnd I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSeven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Ezra
HistoryAnd Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.