And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms
PoetryNow consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job
WisdomAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
History / SamuelThy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
WisdomFor thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Psalms
PoetryAnd that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Job
WisdomWherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
1 Samuel
HistoryAll the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAlso I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
2 Samuel
HistoryA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHim that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
Daniel
Major ProphetsThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy
LawThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew
GospelsWisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,