To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
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And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahI will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Psalms
PoetryI will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exodus
LawAnd Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges
History / SamuelThen the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
Acts
History / LukeAnd they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
Luke
GospelsMake ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan.
Numbers
LawNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Mark
GospelsAnd Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.