To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Psalms
PoetryFor there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
1 Kings
HistoryThe sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Joel
Minor ProphetsBread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahGird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelLet all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalms
PoetryHowbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Luke
GospelsThefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: