But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
Mark
GospelsHowbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
HistoryShe hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIf his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Psalms
PoetryHe shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThey also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Acts
History / LukeAnd know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNeither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Acts
History / LukeAll the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Genesis
LawConsider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesFor by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Proverbs
WisdomWho is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.