But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryShe is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Proverbs
WisdomFor who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms
PoetryThen the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomNow the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis
LawNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
1 Kings
HistoryHe that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWho shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Luke
Gospels / LukePut ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Acts
HistoryThere are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Luke
GospelsEven to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.