Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Ruth
HistorySo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job
WisdomIn his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Job
WisdomSo there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers
Law / MosesSaying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSix years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
HistorySay thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWould to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
Esther
HistoryThen said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be their's for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.