But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
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And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
Leviticus
LawWhen the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSeest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Genesis
LawAnd now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Genesis
LawEven as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers
LawWhom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Acts
History / LukeFor this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.