But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThen answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John
GospelsAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exodus
LawAnd Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deuteronomy
LawWhich now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luke
GospelsHe shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Luke
GospelsMy tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke
GospelsAnd Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis
LawTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
Exodus
LawAnd if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWhat prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1 Kings
HistoryOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.