Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James
General EpistlesEvery man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
HistoryForsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
Exodus
LawAnd it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAt the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAlso their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
1 Samuel
HistoryThen he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAlso Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBut he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesThere was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke
GospelsNow there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts
HistoryI thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThey shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.