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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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Judges
History / SamuelFor the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus
LawAnd the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBehold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawFor he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Mark
GospelsThe Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis
Law / MosesThou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms
PoetryFor I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThen stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
Acts
HistoryNow Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua
HistoryOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;