And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis
LawWhen mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Psalms
PoetryFor an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWithout understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2 Kings
HistoryThe tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
Exodus
Law / MosesWoe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaOr if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus
LawThen said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIs any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAfter this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Acts
HistoryAnd if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
Leviticus
LawYe shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.