And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNeither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs
WisdomUnto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy
LawI will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Luke
GospelsAs soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job
WisdomFor he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
James
General EpistlesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryBut if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Acts
History / LukeAnd another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Samuel
HistoryWherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.