So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonGo your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Luke
GospelsAnd mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis
LawKnow therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielMy manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Acts
History / LukeAnd I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsHe sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
Psalms
PoetryKnow now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.