Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job
WisdomBut if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPeradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThese are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
Deuteronomy
LawAs the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
1 Kings
HistoryCursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSimeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts
HistoryFor, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Samuel
HistorySave, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Leviticus
LawAnd he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
Judges
HistoryAnd Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Genesis
Law / MosesJerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Psalms
PoetryMaking request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Job
WisdomAt the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
Ezra
HistoryAnd the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: