And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHave mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luke
GospelsThese are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis
LawI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
GospelsThe king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe men of Netophah, fifty and six.
Ezra
History / EzraBut unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job
WisdomBecause thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Leviticus
LawWhich my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Genesis
Law / MosesSave only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Genesis
LawThen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
Ruth
HistoryAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
LawAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.