Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryThe Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomThe LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus
Law / MosesIt is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Luke
GospelsO LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
Judges
History / SamuelFor I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAlso their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Luke
GospelsI ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.