But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLike as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAfter the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Simon he surnamed Peter;
Mark
GospelsHe only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Mark
GospelsI prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAfter my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job
WisdomFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomCast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.