If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTwo and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew
GospelsThe whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNotwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Luke
GospelsTherefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
Exodus
LawAnd the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
Numbers
LawJesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHis eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawFor after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter
General EpistlesThen the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges
HistoryAnd Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
Matthew
GospelsWoe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsThe LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.