Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
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And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Esther
History / MordecaiMoreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Judges
HistoryAnd there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
Mark
GospelsAnd purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
Exodus
Law / MosesA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs
WisdomBut thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Psalms
PoetryA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs
WisdomCanst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
Wisdom / JobNamely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTake his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs
WisdomFor God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryYea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
Judges
HistoryAnd Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus
LawHe gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Exodus
Law / MosesLet them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Psalms
PoetryNow after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;