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Esther 3:7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

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Genesis 3:7
Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

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Genesis 27:41
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Exodus 1:10
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:13
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Proverbs 19:21
There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Mark 6:21
Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

Acts 9:1
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 12:2
He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Acts 12:3
When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

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Genesis 46:1
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

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Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 1:15
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

Exodus 1:16
and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

1 Samuel 22:17
The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:19
He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

2 Kings 15:16
Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

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Numbers 28:16
“ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.

Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Joshua 3:12
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

John 5:1
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Numbers 33:38
Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 6:38
In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.

1 Kings 8:2
All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

Jeremiah 39:2
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Zechariah 1:7
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,

Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

Zechariah 8:19
Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

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Joshua 7:15
It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”

Joshua 7:16
So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

Joshua 7:17
He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

Joshua 7:18
He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

Judges 20:9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;

Judges 20:10
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”

1 Samuel 10:20
So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.

1 Samuel 10:21
He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 14:42
Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” Jonathan was selected.

Psalms 22:18
They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Jonah 1:7
They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Acts 1:23
They put forward two: Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

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2 Samuel 13:23
After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim; and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 13:24
Absalom came to the king and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

2 Samuel 13:25
The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

2 Samuel 13:26
Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

2 Samuel 13:27
But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

2 Samuel 13:29
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule and fled.

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1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

John 9:22
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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2 Kings 21:6
He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 23:5
He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

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Esther 2:19
When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Esther 3:2
All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther 3:3
Then the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

Esther 3:4
Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Esther 4:7
Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Esther 6:3
The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

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Esther 1:1
Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Esther 1:3
in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him.

Esther 8:9
Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

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Esther 9:5
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

Esther 9:10
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:15
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:18
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 28:3
Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalms 71:11
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Jeremiah 33:24
“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Lamentations 4:15
“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”

Ezekiel 25:3
Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

Ezekiel 26:2
“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’

Ezekiel 36:2
The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’

Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

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Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Proverbs 24:2
for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

Proverbs 24:8
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Micah 6:5
My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

Luke 23:20
Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

Luke 23:21
but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”

Acts 13:10
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Lamentations 3:37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

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Isaiah 66:23
It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

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Esther 3:14
A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3:15
The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Esther 9:25
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Jeremiah 31:36
“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

Daniel 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

Acts 4:17
But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

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Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

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Ezekiel 21:22
In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

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Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

Nehemiah 4:2
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

Nehemiah 4:4
“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

Ezekiel 35:10
“ ‘ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although Yahweh was there,

Ezekiel 35:11
therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:12
You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’

Ezekiel 35:13
You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

Ezekiel 35:14
The Lord Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

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Isaiah 47:13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

Daniel 2:8
The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.

Daniel 2:9
But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

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Ezra 4:12
Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the foundations.

Ezra 4:15
that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

Nehemiah 6:6
in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Daniel 6:6
Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Daniel 6:11
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

Daniel 6:12
Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel 6:13
Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Acts 17:6
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

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Matthew 27:62
Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

Matthew 27:63
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Matthew 27:64
Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Matthew 27:65
Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”

Matthew 27:66
So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

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Acts 1:24
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Acts 13:19
When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.

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Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

Daniel 3:4
Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 3:5
that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Daniel 3:6
Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Daniel 3:7
Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”

John 11:57
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

Revelation 13:15
It was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Revelation 13:16
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads;

Revelation 13:17
and that no one would be able to buy or to sell unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

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