The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, Volume 9Funk & Wagnalls, 1889 |
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Ahasuerus Ahaz Ahaziah ALMIGHTY altar answer Artaxerxes Athaliah Babylon beautiful Bible bless thee brethren build Christian Chron Church commanded curse Darius divine enemy Esther eternal evil eyes Ezra faith fathers feel gate give God's gold Haman Hammedatha hand Hashabiah hath hear heart heathen heaven Hezekiah holy honour house of God human infinite inspiration Israel Jehoiada Jerusalem Jeshua Jesus Christ Jews Joash Judah king of Persia king's land Levites live look mercy moral Mordecai Moses mystery Nehemiah Nethinims never noble offered ourselves passover poor pray prayer priests princes prophets Rehum reign religious Sanballat servants Sherebiah Sheshbazzar Shethar-Boznai Shimshai silver soul speak spirit stand tell temple thine things thou dost thou hast Tobiah true unto the king unto the Lord Uzziah wall whole word worship Zechariah Zerubbabel
Popular passages
Page 243 - Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our LORD : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 350 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 295 - I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy : and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you ; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Page 321 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 315 - And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day...
Page 258 - ... to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes...
Page 317 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Page 102 - ... all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
Page 121 - Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 154 - But 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.