The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job
WisdomFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel
HistoryArt not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFaithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAccording to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
Exodus
LawO LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
Ruth
HistoryAnd when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Acts
History / LukeWe have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSpeak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;