To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John
Gospels / JohnAs for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus
LawAnd all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewO LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonExalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
1 Kings
HistoryLet every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewServing the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts
HistoryLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Exodus
Law / MosesWoe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers
Law / MosesHow much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?