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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Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawAnd when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
John
GospelsThen the disciples went away again unto their own home.
John
Gospels / JohnJesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John
GospelsThis month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus
LawThe LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis
LawWhen the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
Acts
HistoryEven from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
LawWhere are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Joshua
HistoryAnd great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Acts
History / LukeWith him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job
WisdomAnd Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
1 Samuel
HistoryOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
2 Kings
History(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)