So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryWhen I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
Exodus
LawThe sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAs smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis
LawThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John
GospelsOur persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.