Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelGive out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Joshua
HistoryAs a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Job
WisdomAnd they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
Job
WisdomAnd it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Judges
History / SamuelThen answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy
LawYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielKing Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Acts
History / LukeFor every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIn that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.