For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
HistoryThen said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobHear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryThen the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
2 Samuel
HistoryIn that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Acts
History / LukeAnd out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges
HistoryThe LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
1 Chronicles
History / Ezra(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
John
GospelsNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther
HistoryIf I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: