Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Numbers
LawYe mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomThou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
Job
WisdomAnd in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawThen came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIs it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHeal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAs vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.