And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIt is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel
Major ProphetsLet me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
1 Samuel
HistoryThrough desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHow he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
Mark
GospelsAnd Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
Wisdom / JobAfter this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
1 Samuel
HistoryBut Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewJudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Genesis
LawAnd he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAt that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
2 Kings
HistoryFor this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.