The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesSo they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job
Wisdom / JobWith him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawAnd straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
Genesis
LawNow therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
Ezra
History / EzraBut Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings
HistoryBy the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawAnd when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
Psalms
PoetryAnd when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
2 Samuel
HistoryHis offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.