On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.
Acts
HistoryFor our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms
PoetryLooking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job
WisdomHe answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark
GospelsMoreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
Acts
HistoryFor they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Esther
History / MordecaiThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
Gospels / JohnA foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Numbers
LawThen said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
Nehemiah
HistoryGo ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
Acts
History / LukeLet them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
Acts
HistoryAs a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.