And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts
History / LukeAnd in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesTo stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Esther
HistoryIbhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2 Samuel
HistoryThen was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHeshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Joshua
HistoryAnd going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Acts
History / LukeBut when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnWhen the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.