But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHappy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Acts
HistoryUnto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawBut Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis
Law / MosesVerily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
Mark
GospelsAnd the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWhen I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAt that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNamely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsFor they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kings
HistorySaying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
Acts
History / LukeFor by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesConfounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms
PoetryHis glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.