He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers
LawAnd Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHowl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings
HistoryI have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
John
GospelsBetter is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhen he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
John
GospelsFor men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThese are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis
Law / MosesIn the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.