We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
Numbers
LawIf men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus
LawSet me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
HistoryHazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Nehemiah
HistoryBelieve me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John
Gospels / JohnHe shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Solomon's Song
PoetryA bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Exodus
LawWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew
GospelsBut he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John
GospelsAnd he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
2 Kings
HistoryIn the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOr if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
Leviticus
LawAnd Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus
LawTherefore 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.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: