And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
Numbers
Law / MosesNow when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Acts
History / LukeWhen she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Ruth
HistoryAnd I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
Exodus
Law / MosesOne of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawThe way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
WisdomUnto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersExcellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Esther
History / MordecaiHowl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAhinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms
PoetryThou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.