In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezra
History / EzraThe young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
Wisdom / JobDan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsIf thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
Judges
HistoryAnd when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2 Kings
HistoryNow the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Matthew
GospelsBlessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
Acts
History / LukeBehold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.