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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For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew
GospelsWho shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Revelation
ApocalypticIf a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIt was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke
GospelsFrom the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges
HistoryAnd they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Luke
GospelsAnd as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryAnd he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Exodus
LawOut of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James
General EpistlesAnd the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke
GospelsAnd knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus
LawThy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Psalms
PoetryThen shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.