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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Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHowl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Psalms
PoetryWhich think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMoreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryGo and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
1 Chronicles
HistoryO clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
Psalms
PoetryFor these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Acts
HistoryAnd they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs
WisdomA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSee, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBy little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesGive me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.