This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings
HistoryAs it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulGo thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewPhinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Numbers
LawAnd he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings
HistoryHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawOnly the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesHow much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawSay among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
Psalms
PoetryFor I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.