And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahYea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Joshua
HistoryGrant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Nehemiah
HistoryOn that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Joshua
HistorySo Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryNow therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTurn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTraitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis
LawLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Psalms
PoetryThen came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.