As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
Psalms
PoetryAnd under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
2 Samuel
HistoryForty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Joshua
HistoryAnd thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
Matthew
GospelsAnd those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesRemember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThey speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThis then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOthers said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
Mark
GospelsArise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Genesis
LawThe word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.