In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
John
GospelsThese things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John
Gospels / JohnBut Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
John
GospelsAnd shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBlessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Genesis
LawAs many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAs therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Acts
HistoryAfter him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
Nehemiah
HistoryBless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryMarcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms
PoetryAnd the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
Nehemiah
HistoryIf any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.