As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis
LawAnd he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
Genesis
LawAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew
GospelsI went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMoreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
John
GospelsAnd they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers
LawAnd Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis
LawThen said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts
HistorySo she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.