So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Judges
HistoryA virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis
LawSo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke
GospelsThou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: