Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy
LawThen the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
Numbers
LawAnd there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
2 Samuel
HistoryAll my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers
LawAnd thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
LawCan a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticSo concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms
PoetryThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhich of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Matthew
GospelsAnd now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
Acts
HistoryTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThree times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: