And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryThe Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1 Kings
HistoryWhile he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBecause they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Matthew
GospelsAnd ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelEach charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John
GospelsAnd Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
LawWhen ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLet the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John
GospelsFor I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Matthew
GospelsWho hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Job
WisdomAnd Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
2 Kings
HistoryFor David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelChildren's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.