To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Genesis
LawLet them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomThen went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYour lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus
Law / MosesThen said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Exodus
LawAll sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Acts
HistoryThe shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs
WisdomBut who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope:
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus
Law(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
Acts
History / LukeThen the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesTherefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Psalms
PoetryLet me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Numbers
LawFor ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers
LawWeep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.