And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
WisdomMoreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobLet not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job
Wisdom / JobSing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job
WisdomAnd Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Genesis
LawTen fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIt shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Job
WisdomThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDesire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Mark
GospelsAgain, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus
LawWhilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.