And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job
WisdomAnd God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesShe is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAt Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSubmit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNow my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
Leviticus
LawBut if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers
LawAnd after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Matthew
GospelsAnd these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAs the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
Mark
GospelsCome, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonOur persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOr, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHappy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: