And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
Ruth
HistoryKedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWe will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
Psalms
PoetryGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke
GospelsTo keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Judges
HistoryThou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis
LawAnd forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus
LawTurn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Revelation
ApocalypticFor thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
John
Gospels / JohnThe LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Numbers
LawBut Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.