So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers
LawAnd he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Psalms
PoetryThis day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
John
Gospels / JohnHe hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsBut ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus
LawAnd the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIsrael hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaLikewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesMy heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.