And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
HistoryFor she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Ruth
History / SamuelMy defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms
PoetryPraise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms
PoetryHe gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
HistoryPhilip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
John
Gospels / JohnThou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Exodus
LawIf I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
Joshua
HistoryWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis
LawThe sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSurely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.