To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonJohn bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
Gospels / JohnA bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBe ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWithin two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job
Wisdom / JobOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
HistoryAnd the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Genesis
LawThese are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawA man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Proverbs
WisdomAn evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,