Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
