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:
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When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAll in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke
GospelsThen shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHusbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTen fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings
HistoryWho said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTo reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThrough faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
Exodus
LawWhich stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownLet the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAs for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.