In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
Leviticus
Law / MosesGird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Genesis
LawWilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms
PoetrySay thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHis branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers
LawAnd he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is our's: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Genesis
LawWilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryTake the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job
WisdomAnd the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.