Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job
WisdomAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis
LawThe fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms
PoetryFor Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psalms
PoetryUntil the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
Leviticus
LawRejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis
LawAnd unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFolly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhat thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsUnto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.