As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
Numbers
LawWhoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs
WisdomAnd moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraShemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luke
GospelsNow Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomAlso Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job
WisdomAnd one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesBy which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.