For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
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For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsEven as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job
WisdomAnd all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matthew
GospelsAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
HistoryThe tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawThou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThen understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos
Minor ProphetsThen she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Joshua
HistoryTherefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
Psalms
PoetryFor I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd 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 ProphetsThen the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts
History(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus
LawFor it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
2 Kings
HistoryBehold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.