And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
Psalms
PoetryThey search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
Psalms
PoetryBut after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
Acts
History / LukeFor thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Matthew
GospelsAnd shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
Nehemiah
HistoryMuch every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBecause that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
John
GospelsVow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Genesis
LawBut the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Genesis
LawAnd it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: