For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahDarts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job
WisdomThe children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra
HistoryMy God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Proverbs
WisdomTeaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelNeither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
Acts
HistoryTherefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryWrite ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Esther
HistoryOur cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psalms
PoetryIn the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers
LawWhen I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: