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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
Exodus
LawJesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
John
GospelsWherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsPilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
John
GospelsAnd of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesCall together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhy criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWoe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThere have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Ezra
HistoryThere was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
Acts
HistoryAnd Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Joshua
HistoryAnd all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.