For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Esther
HistoryThe lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsFor Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelO our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBy the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryThat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Acts
History / LukeTo the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
John
GospelsAnd they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSon of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThe sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.