As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryFor whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
Wisdom / JobBe not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAfter these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSalute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThe roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.