And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Psalms
PoetryUntil I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBe ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Luke
GospelsIsrael hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Judges
HistoryBut thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew
GospelsLet not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psalms
PoetryFor this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
Ezra
History / EzraThey also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumNevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms
PoetryAnd these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulPoverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.