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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
2 Kings
HistoryFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezra
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSalvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAs a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAlso at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBy the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Proverbs
WisdomThe men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
Luke
Gospels / LukeTwo are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonDid not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
John
GospelsAnd to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnOut of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Numbers
Law / MosesOf the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Numbers
LawAnd these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.