But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
Genesis
LawAnd Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
1 Kings
HistoryAs for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Job
WisdomWe love him, because he first loved us.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
LawLet not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms
PoetryStay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
HistoryWhich in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobForbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBlessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWhile as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhy dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.