And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts
HistoryNow these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
John
GospelsCorrect thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
PoetryI say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
John
GospelsAnd afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
Numbers
LawRemember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Exodus
Law / MosesOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.