And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsArise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Psalms
PoetryThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryWhatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThese men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Genesis
LawWill a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosMeraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNotwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulO house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryThe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luke
GospelsThen the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelThe father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWho raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.