And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonKnow ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis
LawCircumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulArise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraA false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs
WisdomFor as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThey have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraThen shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSwear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Matthew
GospelsOf Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Numbers
LawAnd the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.