So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
Esther
HistoryConsider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis
LawAnd the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Ezra
History / EzraBy this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
Luke
GospelsThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsIf thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Genesis
LawIn those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
Daniel
Major ProphetsPilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIt is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs
WisdomLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryNeither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd 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.
2 Kings
HistoryBut when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges
HistoryAnd kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryNeither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
Genesis
Law / MosesThou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.