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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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
LawAnd Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis
LawAnd he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis
LawAnd thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
Acts
History / LukeNevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThese be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis
Law / MosesHow much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1 Samuel
HistoryLet it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesIt shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers
LawSo teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psalms
PoetryAnd her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: