And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBlessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job
WisdomLet the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
Psalms
PoetryAnd all that believed were together, and had all things common;
Acts
HistoryYe shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMarvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnSo are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job
WisdomCome unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
HistoryPreaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.