And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs
WisdomFor I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Acts
HistoryThe posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Esther
HistoryAnd he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles
HistorySeeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
Exodus
LawAnd God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis
LawAnd Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAlso take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
LawThen Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
Genesis
LawIf any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezra
History / EzraHe is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs
WisdomSo Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.