Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomEven from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John
GospelsAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Joshua
HistoryAnd even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSurely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis
LawFor the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Matthew
GospelsWill ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms
PoetryThe vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryWhose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.