Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDid I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
Nehemiah
HistoryIf I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
Esther
History / MordecaiYet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
Acts
HistoryHow excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersElihu spake moreover, and said,
Job
WisdomNevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew
GospelsEven of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew
GospelsThe children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawNotwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.