And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNot for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
Judges
History / SamuelHow he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke
GospelsFor thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Acts
History / LukeBut Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Joshua
HistoryI will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahA reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomThis is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryPeter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
John
GospelsHe saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.