And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
James
General EpistlesSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
Judges
History / SamuelEven so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBy his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job
WisdomBut the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms
PoetryJesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
John
Gospels / JohnThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAfter a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBecause the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.