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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They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTake us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryMy glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielRejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew
GospelsFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
John
GospelsDeclare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIn the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryI am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers
LawMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.