Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
2 Samuel
HistoryThus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Psalms
PoetryThen Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Joshua
HistoryWho gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSome indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel
HistoryLet them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
1 Peter
General EpistlesHe that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs
WisdomHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsIn that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFeed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
LawKnowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?