The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
Ruth
HistoryThou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalms
PoetryFor thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWithhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
PoetryThat no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBenjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
Ezra
HistoryFor what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIs it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job
WisdomAnd Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus
LawThe sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAll the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers
LawSo is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke
GospelsThe voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonIt shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
WisdomThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
Acts
HistoryAnd they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAlso of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
Ezra
HistoryAnd then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.