For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings
HistoryA several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
Numbers
LawFrom the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms
PoetryTake heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMy flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Job
WisdomThus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Acts
History / LukeAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawTherefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBehold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job
WisdomAnd four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Judges
History / SamuelBut when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryThe wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John
GospelsAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.