But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Psalms
PoetryThus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis
Law / MosesO LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Acts
HistoryThen said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahO clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThese are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
LawFor in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Psalms
PoetryThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John
GospelsThen I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.