And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsPrepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Matthew
GospelsWe gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job
WisdomAnd of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers
LawAnd Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus
LawAnd the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
History / EzraSo Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Esther
HistoryMoreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 John
General EpistlesBut he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
Matthew
GospelsThe horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomNow the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
PoetryBut she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.