Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark
GospelsWherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsKeep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryUphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
Mark
GospelsThen they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
Genesis
LawNevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis
LawNow when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSay, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.