But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
Genesis
LawI sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus
LawI am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms
PoetryNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelFor riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Joshua
HistoryAnd the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
Judges
HistoryAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWe heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Mark
GospelsAnd she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
LawSo David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraYet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.