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.
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus
LawHast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job
Wisdom / JobLet all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
Leviticus
LawAnd the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers
LawThese are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThat the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalms
PoetryThere is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHappy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Genesis
LawFor I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Luke
GospelsPassing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Proverbs
WisdomI will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psalms
PoetryBut if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
Numbers
Law / MosesMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
PoetryThere was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Joshua
HistoryThey are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Revelation
ApocalypticEluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,