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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
