And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus
LawSurely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Psalms
PoetryThy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Matthew
GospelsAnd he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
Luke
GospelsAnd she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
2 Kings
HistorySo Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAre there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job
Wisdom / JobO God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
John
Gospels / JohnThey shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Acts
HistoryThey shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Judges
HistoryAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.