And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
Joshua
History / JoshuaOr else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
Acts
History / LukeBe watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke
GospelsWhen once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Luke
GospelsLet his days be few; and let another take his office.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
Genesis
Law / MosesCut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Judges
History / SamuelThe waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job
WisdomNow there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job
WisdomMoreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Numbers
LawWhen they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
Acts
HistoryAnd these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.