Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Job
Wisdom / JobNeither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelFor every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
John
Gospels / JohnSince ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulEither what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
Luke
GospelsAnd Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSet a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke
GospelsWhich in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
Genesis
LawAnd when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psalms
PoetryAnd he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.