And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deuteronomy
LawThe LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryA foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus
LawLet us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Numbers
LawAnd Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1 Samuel
HistoryDeclare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1 Kings
HistoryWhy trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
Mark
GospelsAnd the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.