Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luke
GospelsAnd were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus
LawAnd the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
Ezra
HistoryAnd after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts
HistoryThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis
Law / MosesI the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
1 Samuel
HistoryRebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.