And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
Leviticus
LawAfter a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
LawAnd they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exodus
LawHezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms
PoetryBut when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Acts
HistoryFor out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms
PoetryOthers said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThese are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOnly be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
Leviticus
LawBut the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBecause thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.