Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
Genesis
LawIt is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSpeak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryAre there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis
LawBut where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
WisdomThen the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Genesis
LawAnd all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAlso in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Numbers
LawBehold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiHe coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.