Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus
LawAnd Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
Luke
GospelsThen took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesOnly the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
LawYe are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job
WisdomAnd Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exodus
LawWilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs
WisdomWilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNo mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.