If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Exodus
LawHis flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
WisdomFor my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs
WisdomBut the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
Matthew
GospelsAnd there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
Daniel
Major ProphetsPaul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
2 Kings
HistoryLest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
Acts
HistoryBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!