Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
Genesis
LawTheir horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Ezra
History / EzraBut I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Leviticus
LawFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms
PoetryThe voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Psalms
PoetryThen David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1 Samuel
HistoryGo and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Genesis
LawFor their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis
LawIs his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraThe LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.