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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Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers
Law / MosesOthers said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
Mark
GospelsSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOur cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Exodus
LawTherefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Exodus
LawWhich imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Psalms
PoetryOn the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMany of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
John
GospelsAs arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges
History / SamuelFor thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exodus
Law / MosesI will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhere is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.