Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
Luke
GospelsLet seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
2 Samuel
HistoryI wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
3 John
General EpistlesTill he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Job
WisdomAnd of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus
Law / MosesWoe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
Acts
History / LukeFor his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNot to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers
LawThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.