And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job
WisdomNevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew
GospelsShalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Proverbs
WisdomGive them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Joshua
HistoryHe mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job
WisdomThou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms
PoetryI have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOne ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryMy heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
2 Samuel
HistoryWhose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGo and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Judges
HistoryFor I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsShammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAlso, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,