He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
Psalms
PoetryAnd whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFlee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBaldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Job
WisdomAnd Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis
LawAnd Job spake, and said,
Job
WisdomAnd the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Exodus
LawAnd when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus
Law / MosesFolly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Proverbs
WisdomSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.