And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesBe not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAll my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings
HistoryDeclare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
Ruth
HistoryHe shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms
PoetryBut be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsMy days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job
WisdomThen said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy
LawLook upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalms
PoetryEven as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIt may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.