So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
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And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges
HistoryThen Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhich the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for their's was the first lot.
Joshua
HistoryAnd by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
Genesis
LawAnd, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
Joshua
HistoryGo ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewEven a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiTherefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
Exodus
LawTherefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalms
PoetryThen Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahRemember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: