And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesShe obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahHe that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAn ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWas it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings
HistoryIf thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job
WisdomBut all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
Acts
HistorySave Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
2 Samuel
HistoryWho serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
Genesis
Law / MosesMine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWere not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?