And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Judges
History / SamuelBut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James
General EpistlesAnd the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus
LawTheir feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
Numbers
LawFor if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryKnow ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
Revelation
ApocalypticWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsFor they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.