He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers
LawThen all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe 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.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Judges
HistoryI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWho hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDeliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs
WisdomNow when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Matthew
GospelsForasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.