Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
PoetrySurely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark
GospelsThou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Matthew
GospelsAnd was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Matthew
Gospels(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
1 Chronicles
HistoryConcerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIt is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges
HistoryAnd the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John
GospelsAnd Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Genesis
LawAnd if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
Leviticus
LawThen were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.