Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
Luke
GospelsHold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job
Wisdom / JobTake, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
Genesis
LawFor every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Psalms
PoetryWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
Luke
GospelsAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Luke
GospelsAnd Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
1 Samuel
HistoryBath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings
HistoryHe that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
1 John
General EpistlesFor the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Esther
HistoryThat he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy
LawBut I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.