The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
Luke
Gospels / LukeYet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psalms
PoetryThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhen the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
2 Samuel
HistoryArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOnly be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers
LawBecause 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
HistoryAnd Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Genesis
LawBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!