Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
LawThe LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Psalms
PoetryAnd of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Exodus
Law / MosesMark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job
WisdomBut the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther
History / MordecaiSing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Psalms
PoetryThese ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus
LawYea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua
HistoryAnd, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThey shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
James
General EpistlesBut if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
LawThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel
Minor ProphetsNevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.