For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
John
Gospels / JohnLook upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings
HistoryBecause of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHaving the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
Luke
GospelsWherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job
WisdomBut Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel
HistoryFools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms
PoetryAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawHe couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Numbers
LawSo that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Beth-lehem.