But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNotwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTheir horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Ezra
HistoryThe LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
Acts
HistoryAnd he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
Job
WisdomAlso that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Nehemiah
HistoryBecause thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
Leviticus
LawThe preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomI shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Luke
GospelsAnd while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLet us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis
LawObserve thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.