But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSo he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
1 Kings
HistoryCursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawThey drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Psalms
PoetryThe king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings
HistoryI have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsThat chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Amos
Minor ProphetsSo they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
2 Kings
HistoryIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
GospelsAnd he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
Judges
History / SamuelWherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahDuke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Luke
GospelsSo Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John
Gospels / JohnThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.