All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Ruth
HistoryThen she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewInto thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis
LawAnd they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsUpright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job
WisdomIs this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHer children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonConsider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Judges
HistoryThere shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.