This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
HistoryYe shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs
WisdomAlthough my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahWherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings
HistoryLo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
HistorySlay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Psalms
PoetryThe ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
Acts
History / LukeBlessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.