And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYoung men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesThy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNeither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDiscretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Luke
GospelsHe saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
Mark
GospelsAnd the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
John
Gospels / JohnWhoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
2 Kings
HistoryFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Acts
HistoryWhen they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
Luke
GospelsIf so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawConsider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms
PoetryI am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd charged them that they should not make him known: