And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Luke
GospelsYe are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel
HistoryBut as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Numbers
LawThen the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mark
GospelsYea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Ruth
HistoryOf the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelO sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts
HistoryHe hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThey shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFlee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWho is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd 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
HistoryAnd that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.