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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The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahDivers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAfter this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Genesis
Law / MosesA sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
Genesis
LawThen said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOf the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings
HistoryEven men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Acts
HistoryAnd it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.