And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Exodus
LawShould it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Job
Wisdom / JobThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
Judges
History / SamuelBut my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers
LawAnd the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
Judges
History / SamuelBut neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
John
Gospels / JohnThy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThere are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter
General EpistlesThat our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms
PoetryAnd we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John
General EpistlesThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;