Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew
GospelsAnd said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Esther
HistoryUnstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Genesis
Law / MosesMan that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job
WisdomThe LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Psalms
PoetryWhile Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
Judges
HistoryThou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAlso can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesThey break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: