And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus
Law / MosesThere is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
Numbers
LawAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
Acts
HistoryAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
History / SamuelHow are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahYea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
1 Samuel
HistorySo when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
2 Samuel
HistorySo they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Psalms
PoetryThy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonJetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.