Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Exodus
LawThe children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
Ezra
History / EzraThere came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Psalms
PoetryJesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John
GospelsThy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:
2 Kings
HistoryIf I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job
WisdomAnd in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
LawThen Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryWill the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Job
Wisdom(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers
LawAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark
GospelsTo go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings
HistoryBut they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: