So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMoses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges
History / SamuelFor now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job
WisdomNeither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis
LawThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation
ApocalypticSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSeeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Hebrews
General EpistlesHe shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job
WisdomBut he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawWhither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownTo redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBut Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
John
Gospels / JohnGod shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.