And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSet me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonMy God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings
HistoryThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielEven three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
Numbers
LawBut Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsLet the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
John
GospelsTell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Job
WisdomHe sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms
PoetryBut I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs
WisdomThen enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
John
Gospels / JohnThou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Exodus
Law / MosesTell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.