Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
2 Chronicles
HistoryI have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1 Kings
HistorySo Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles
HistoryA foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAn instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAll the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers
Law / MosesThat the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsKnowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy
LawWhich when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Acts
HistoryAs the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew
GospelsSo foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.