The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
Ruth
HistoryAnd the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanMy heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
Numbers
LawAnd if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Exodus
Law / MosesConfess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James
General EpistlesLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Luke
GospelsNow in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Esther
HistoryNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThat ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Leviticus
LawThe eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: