And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psalms
PoetryEsther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
Esther
History / MordecaiBless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Psalms
PoetryFor it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Genesis
Law / MosesWith trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus
LawAgain there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job
Wisdom / JobFinally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 Peter
General EpistlesBless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms
PoetryThe trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
Genesis
LawI will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAfter that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDavid therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)