And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms
PoetryHe cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms
PoetryThe Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
John
GospelsIf any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
Deuteronomy
LawWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhen I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms
PoetryBut howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Genesis
LawWhen the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomJust balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther
HistoryAnd if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThat the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John
GospelsTherefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.