Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawTake his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs
WisdomThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThat men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exodus
LawTake heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Ezra
History / EzraThen there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAs 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
HistoryThen shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew
GospelsBecause of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts
History / LukeThe sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms
PoetryThen Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsHe hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.