And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesA virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Matthew
GospelsWould to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus
Law / MosesHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryIncline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job
WisdomAnd in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
2 Samuel
HistoryReturn, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms
PoetryAnd said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFrom that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelSo Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahEphraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.