And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis
LawHe that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs
WisdomWhosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1 John
General EpistlesThe God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel
HistorySo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
HistorySeek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhich was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Psalms
PoetrySixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psalms
PoetryThere is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHis roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges
HistoryAnd the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.