This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis
LawWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielLike sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalms
PoetryBut do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
Acts
HistoryAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
GospelsAnd thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus
LawAfter them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
Leviticus
LawAnd they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
Genesis
Law / MosesHonour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Proverbs
WisdomHold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalms
PoetryBut they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.