Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThis is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Matthew
GospelsThe Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
John
GospelsBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
Numbers
Law / MosesI will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
Psalms
PoetryPraise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAt the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumHe answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
Mark
GospelsSo 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
HistoryAnd Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Numbers
LawAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
LawAs for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
LawAll nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.