I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel
Minor ProphetsThat say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
2 Kings
HistoryThat they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
Joshua
HistoryNow when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
Exodus
LawFor the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukBut, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude
General Epistles / JudeIf a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Leviticus
Law / MosesDeliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms
PoetryThe king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Joshua
HistoryCommand the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Numbers
LawSo they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryUnderstand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis
LawTake ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers
LawBut Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.