And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
2 Chronicles
HistoryHis disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Matthew
GospelsYea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
Psalms
PoetryBoth to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahIt is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Judges
HistoryAnd lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
Exodus
LawAnd have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
Numbers
Law / MosesAgain he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Matthew
GospelsAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges
History / SamuelI tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.