My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Psalms
PoetryDo not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
Acts
History / LukeThen he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
2 Kings
HistoryFor in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
Matthew
GospelsIt is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAbout forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luke
GospelsFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLet another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.