And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
James
General EpistlesThus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesRise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther
HistoryYea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Daniel
Major ProphetsIf this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryNow the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhich turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job
Wisdom / JobIn that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Luke
GospelsWherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis
LawAnd his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.