Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
Esther
HistoryHowbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsMy covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSome indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts
History / LukeWho hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Job
Wisdom / JobO LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
Ezra
HistoryAnd there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Acts
History / LukeSo that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBecause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.