And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job
WisdomAnd he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsOf the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
Ezra
HistoryAnd there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraDeliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers
LawAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsVerily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Mark
GospelsAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWas it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahUpon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
Exodus
Law / MosesHaving the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesTake the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers
LawThis is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
Leviticus
LawAnd he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.