This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesDeliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezra
HistoryAnd Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAs yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHis going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThen Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
Judges
History / SamuelBut God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
Judges
History / SamuelYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
LawShechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Acts
History / LukeA wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs
WisdomBut in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.