And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOnly the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Genesis
LawAnd the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Genesis
LawAnd Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which is Debir,
Joshua
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers
Law / MosesGo ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings
HistoryHaving your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThen I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDuke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
Genesis
LawUnto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Numbers
LawAlthough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.