The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus
LawI was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
Acts
HistoryThough the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFalse witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryJesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John
GospelsWhen I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
LawBut I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
Psalms
PoetryAs for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYe shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: