Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Samuel
HistoryShe is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Job
WisdomAnd those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis
LawFor oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
1 Kings
HistoryTo overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Psalms
PoetryThe conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth
HistoryThus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAll ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesEven of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThese are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWoe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThey shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
Hebrews
General EpistlesBy the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.