Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Psalms
PoetryThe wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
Wisdom / JobBetter is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOf the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Luke
GospelsThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThese were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
Numbers
LawHowbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Joshua
HistoryThe seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Psalms
PoetryWho redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms
PoetryAnd he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.