All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Matthew
GospelsLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
Exodus
LawAnd if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
Acts
HistoryMoreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesUnto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Psalms
PoetrySo the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms
PoetryPlead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.