And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Esther
History / MordecaiSo Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawHe only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Psalms
PoetryThen Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings
HistoryThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesSo the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Judges
HistoryBut there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
Nehemiah
HistoryNow these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
HistoryRemember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahConsider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms
PoetryAmong the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job
WisdomAnd a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers
Law / MosesI will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.