Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
2 Samuel
HistoryJesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
John
GospelsAnd Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
WisdomAnd Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Genesis
Law / MosesI said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Genesis
LawJudge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms
PoetryLet the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms
PoetrySave when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
Deuteronomy
LawHis prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms
PoetryThat the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor 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 EpistlesAnd Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.