And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBlessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYe sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
John
Gospels / JohnBut he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus
LawAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
Exodus
LawWhere is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMy flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahLabour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job
WisdomAnd they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.