Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
Numbers
LawHe hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Psalms
PoetryAnd she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy
LawIn that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTruly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke
GospelsWho knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job
WisdomBut forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaLift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.