Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNow therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra
HistoryIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
Exodus
LawAnd the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Genesis
LawBefore thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Nehemiah
HistoryThen I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Nehemiah
HistoryBut God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesI opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAll the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
Numbers
LawAnd Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryYet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus
LawThe one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: