And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
1 Kings
HistoryWho can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job
Wisdom / JobBread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs
WisdomIt is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhat is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
Acts
HistoryShammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2 Samuel
HistoryAmong all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
1 Samuel
HistoryIt shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis
LawAt the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
2 Samuel
HistoryYe that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John
GospelsAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
HistoryAnd I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.