Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges
History / SamuelOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawAnd the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus
LawThe grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
1 Chronicles
HistoryI cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Proverbs
WisdomOf the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra
History / EzraWho hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis
LawFor ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
Mark
GospelsTherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
WisdomWhen a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
Leviticus
LawEliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
Matthew
GospelsA woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John
GospelsMoreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTake the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.