They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
Numbers
LawNow therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges
History / SamuelMy goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
Joshua
HistoryThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Leviticus
LawBut the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
John
GospelsBehold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
Numbers
LawWhat man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Job
WisdomAnd he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPersecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesShe hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Numbers
LawAnd all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAmariah, Malluch, Hattush,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
2 Samuel
HistorySurely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Psalms
PoetryFor of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.