For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis
LawIf the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job
WisdomLittle children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 John
General EpistlesBut and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
Numbers
LawSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus
LawAnd reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Judges
HistoryHe hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Genesis
Law / MosesIs it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers
LawNow the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus
LawBut now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryAfter him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Nehemiah
HistoryThou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDraw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahI said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Psalms
PoetryHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.