And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms
PoetryAs for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis
LawAnd he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahLet Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGreat in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
John
Gospels / JohnThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus
LawAnd he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: