For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAbraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luke
GospelsBehold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Job
WisdomHe appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
1 Kings
HistoryHe that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers
LawAfter this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exodus
LawTherefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark
GospelsHe made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHave the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSeek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahWhether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job
WisdomAnd Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;