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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For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy
LawO vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTrust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
John
Gospels / JohnCorrect thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWho hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs
WisdomHe turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Psalms
PoetryThe slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTake, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
James
General EpistlesSo I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.