The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSo that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job
WisdomAnd because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Psalms
PoetryThen Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel
HistoryTherefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis
LawAnd these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGo to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis
Law / MosesI have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobI will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
LawAnd when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.