I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryTwo tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus
LawThey had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryNow these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Numbers
LawAnd it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
Genesis
LawBut there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
1 Kings
HistoryThese going before tarried for us at Troas.
Acts
History / LukeThey come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
Mark
GospelsBut that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryAnd David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate!
1 Chronicles
HistoryA merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAgain, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewShe saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
John
GospelsHe was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
2 Samuel
HistoryBecause they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.