All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job
Wisdom / JobReuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus
LawAnd Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Exodus
Law / MosesSing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus
LawAnd I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsTheir blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
John
GospelsHave respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
John
GospelsTo give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke
GospelsMy beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
John
Gospels / JohnSo ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Deuteronomy
LawSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exodus
LawBut as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.