For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel
HistoryTherefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Joshua
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawThe sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy
LawThen the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWhosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsThe strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
PoetryAnd as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
John
GospelsFor our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulDuke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Matthew
GospelsO deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.