The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezra
HistoryHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhat shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Esther
HistoryBut they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Numbers
LawThis thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra
HistoryAnd, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGo therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Exodus
LawThine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs
WisdomIn the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 Kings
HistoryI know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNot to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBecause thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
Psalms
PoetryAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.