Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Esther
HistoryAnd I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
Deuteronomy
LawThe foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomThese are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhat thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBecause thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTo cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryOn the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewCast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John
GospelsHe that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
Judges
History / SamuelThe wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.