In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesO LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
Judges
History / SamuelThen Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
Acts
HistoryHave the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
GospelsHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job
Wisdom / JobBefore thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraRender therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesMy beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThere is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
Exodus
LawAnd Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
Genesis
LawAccording to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Leviticus
LawAnd she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Genesis
LawAnd if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.