Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
1 Kings
HistoryBecause he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Hebrews
General EpistlesTherefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsTherefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
2 Samuel
HistoryThe words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
John
GospelsKedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
Joshua
HistoryHe teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Psalms
PoetryAlso he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
Esther
HistoryWhen God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAmmiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.