But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms
PoetryWhy abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Judges
HistoryBut let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHow do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
1 Kings
HistoryYea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
John
Gospels / JohnAfter this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
Genesis
LawAnd I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus
LawIs it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
Luke
GospelsAnd when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeIf I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.