And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIt is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIt came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis
Law / MosesThat our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersButter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Genesis
LawAnd Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
LawFor thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Job
WisdomAnd he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMoreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.