Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
LawIt is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Psalms
PoetrySo neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOf the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Numbers
LawAnd Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
Matthew
GospelsFor there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
Genesis
LawAnd the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew
GospelsBut they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.