The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
John
Gospels / JohnHast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
Exodus
LawOf the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
Ezra
History / EzraWherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryMany sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job
WisdomOn the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges
HistoryThe sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraCanst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
1 Samuel
HistoryNow our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
Ezra
HistoryAnd they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Esther
HistoryWhosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.