Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
Last of all the woman died also.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
