And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms
PoetryAnd Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
Judges
History / SamuelThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIs it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis
LawWhat time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Genesis
LawAnd they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
Law / MosesMy tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Psalms
PoetryIn transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
John
GospelsAnd the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWeep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.