And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms
PoetryGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
PoetryHe was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
John
Gospels / JohnLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Proverbs
WisdomAre there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew
GospelsFor I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAscribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis
LawThey gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.