And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Job
Wisdom / JobMoreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Acts
HistorySpeaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomWoe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Acts
HistoryBehold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
Leviticus
LawAnd Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis
LawAnd he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
1 Kings
HistoryHearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: