Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawWherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John
GospelsLet the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luke
GospelsAnd Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Psalms
PoetryIf a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Exodus
Law / MosesAmaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers
LawAnd whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawAnd he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
HistorySo Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Judges
History / SamuelFor these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.