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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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGive not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Matthew
GospelsAnd their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exodus
Law / MosesThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonBut the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis
LawBecause he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Numbers
Law / MosesMan did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
Gospels / JohnNow there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
John
Gospels / JohnHe fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark
GospelsBecause ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew
GospelsThe Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Acts
HistoryErastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.