They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesUntil the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus
LawLift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalms
PoetryThus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis
LawConsider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Psalms
PoetryThy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Deuteronomy
LawHe which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job
WisdomBut cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
Joshua
HistorySaying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: