He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exodus
Law / MosesCreate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
HistoryIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThe wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs
WisdomSo the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryBut some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
Numbers
LawAnd, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus
LawYea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Exodus
Law / MosesYour words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?