On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
Matthew
GospelsFor he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Judges
History / SamuelThey are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAbraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
Exodus
Law / MosesGet you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawI have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy
LawThere shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Acts
History / LukeFor David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Acts
History / LukeThey did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNeither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWithin two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDeclare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahO LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.