On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
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And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua
HistoryAnd the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus
Law / MosesShe crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Proverbs
WisdomThen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua
HistoryNow this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Exodus
LawGo and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Judges
HistoryAnd Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
1 Samuel
HistoryTherefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
WisdomAnd when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
Ezra
HistoryThus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Acts
History / LukeLORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers
LawAnd why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers
LawBut it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.