And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms
PoetrySo Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
John
GospelsAnd God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis
Law / MosesOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesA brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Luke
GospelsHowbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
John
GospelsDoth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
1 Kings
HistoryRepent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts
History / LukeAnd she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke
GospelsWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
John
GospelsAnd preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
2 Chronicles
HistoryInsomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomThus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryBut when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Matthew
GospelsAnd he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.