And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahCome ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Proverbs
WisdomWoe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAfter him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
Daniel
Major ProphetsIn the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiFor there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelJesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?
John
Gospels / JohnO Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawFor I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThe seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryLet the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
Esther
HistoryThese are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy
LawThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.