So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
PoetryHe that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job
WisdomNow there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
John
GospelsAnd say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
2 Samuel
HistoryA fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts
HistoryThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Mark
GospelsThe children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraCursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
LawSo God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelThe heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke
GospelsAnd the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
Matthew
GospelsAnd whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;