And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Nehemiah
HistoryAs a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs
WisdomChildren, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesA wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
John
GospelsAnd he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMoreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Exodus
Law / MosesOpen to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms
PoetryZadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Job
WisdomAnd the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
Luke
GospelsFor what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Numbers
LawAnd they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Genesis
Law / MosesEgypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryBut the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Joshua
HistoryAnd, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.