Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
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Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
2 Kings
HistoryArise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis
LawAnd the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAnd Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mark
GospelsAnd when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Mark
GospelsThen came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Judges
HistorySo the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFlee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesLORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exodus
LawFor the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Exodus
LawTeach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Psalms
PoetryBecause that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
Acts
HistoryThus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawGrace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThe earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.