So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
Exodus
LawTheir widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
Ezra
History / EzraThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Judges
History / SamuelWhither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Deuteronomy
LawBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew
GospelsWhereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Genesis
LawAnd every man went unto his own house.
John
GospelsFor our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus
LawHe sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Numbers
LawHe that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs
WisdomTo whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
Numbers
LawIf he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel
HistoryMy little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.