And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke
GospelsSing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
Psalms
PoetryA people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSuch knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Numbers
Law / MosesNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
LawBut blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Acts
HistoryThen spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsSave when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
Wisdom / JobI communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawAnd of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Acts
HistoryAnd again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulGod is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.