And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistorySing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTake heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Matthew
GospelsThen shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSaying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Psalms
PoetryNeither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
Numbers
LawAnd these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
Mark
GospelsShall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThen the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGive unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms
PoetryThen Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
Acts
HistoryBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Mark
GospelsAnd Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.