For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawBut Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
Luke
GospelsAnd forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
LawFor who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Luke
GospelsO sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryLet the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWhat if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Joshua
HistoryThe sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumBut thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHusbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesFear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThere is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.