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;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHis hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawAnd he took it, and did eat before them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAll the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Deuteronomy
LawThe children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs
WisdomThese shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis
Law / MosesUntil the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Acts
HistoryBut them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Peter
General EpistlesBefore thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAlso on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.