And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
PoetryThey clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAs a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomIf they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job
WisdomFor he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWho can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTake counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTo turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts
HistoryThe thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew
GospelsAnd by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis
LawWho had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Esther
History / MordecaiBut the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.