The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Numbers
LawAnd he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhat ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges
HistoryFor the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Solomon's Song
PoetryHe preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John
GospelsThou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHow is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulCasting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOne generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms
PoetryHe that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.