In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they talked together of all these things which had happened.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
2 Kings
HistoryHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
WisdomAnd another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job
WisdomAnd he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
Genesis
LawTherefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesRighteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf ye love me, keep my commandments.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalms
PoetryWho would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James
General Epistles / JamesWhen they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
Exodus
LawBut the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms
PoetryBut now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
Acts
History / LukeThe horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: