In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus
LawYet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
Genesis
LawNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Ezra
HistoryAnd when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Judges
HistoryAnd ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
John
Gospels / JohnFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel
HistorySo shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Proverbs
WisdomThis they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
John
GospelsMy flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou shalt not steal.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings
HistoryMany bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.