But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judges
HistoryAnd the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis
LawSo they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
GospelsSo she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Judges
History / SamuelFeed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThen all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawBut Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
Revelation
ApocalypticRighteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
WisdomHe then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
John
GospelsLet us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.