The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2 Samuel
HistoryI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
Judges
History / SamuelSo Paul departed from among them.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOnly take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Acts
HistoryMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job
WisdomLet Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis
LawAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
WisdomWho hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTo confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.