(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesJerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Genesis
Law / MosesForasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Acts
HistoryAre there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job
WisdomTo him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOnly let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
Revelation
ApocalypticI am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Numbers
Law / MosesWithout natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAbout forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryI have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Genesis
LawRid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Psalms
PoetryThat it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.