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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So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the way of peace have they not known:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua
HistoryFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOne of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesWho is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John
General Epistles / JohnRemember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Exodus
Law / MosesWhose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThat we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSeven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus
LawAnd they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSaying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
Luke
GospelsAnd when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.