And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDeliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
Numbers
LawWhen the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Matthew
GospelsThe rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahPlead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms
PoetryBe pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
HistoryAnd they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges
History / SamuelAll the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job
WisdomAnd all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.