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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelI will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
John
GospelsSeek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSpeak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Luke
GospelsYe offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiTherefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSo the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers
LawWhatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesCanst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job
WisdomAnd he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
John
GospelsLet all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.