It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John
GospelsAnd he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
John
GospelsAnd there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
Matthew
GospelsNow the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
Numbers
Law / MosesBetter is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs
WisdomHe hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahTwo women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Amos
Minor ProphetsTake the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers
LawAnd Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings
HistoryFor Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
Esther
HistoryAnd I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBecause for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetryFor this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsMoreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.