My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryAt that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers
LawHe that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua
HistoryAnd ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 Kings
HistoryYet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWho is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryAnd ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Judges
HistoryHow long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
LawO generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?