And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
Exodus
Law / MosesThe wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job
Wisdom / JobEvery man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Matthew
GospelsSpeak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy
LawThe son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Numbers
LawAnd they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawAnd when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
Acts
HistoryOh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.