If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahYea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Psalms
PoetryThen enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
John
GospelsHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job
WisdomThe chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
Ezra
History / EzraBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNeither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAs for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis
LawThe Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke
GospelsThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.