So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers
Law / MosesI have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryHear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges
HistoryAnd the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
Numbers
Law / MosesThou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
Judges
History / SamuelOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Numbers
LawAnd in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
Acts
HistoryAt that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua
HistoryBut seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWho raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.