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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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahO foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesWho, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Acts
History / LukeFor a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSaying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWhich in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySo Job died, being old and full of days.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts
HistoryWhen Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
John
Gospels / JohnA father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms
PoetryBrethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
James
General EpistlesAnd he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew
GospelsWoe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaTheir heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.