The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Exodus
LawThe LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Numbers
Law / MosesI protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Mark
GospelsWhen they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
Judges
HistoryAnd Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
Judges
HistoryThe stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job
Wisdom / JobOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus
LawI called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John
GospelsBut unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Psalms
PoetryDraw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs
WisdomArt not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Acts
HistoryAnd he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Exodus
LawThen came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,