And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel
Minor ProphetsThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTen fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings
HistoryHearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mark
GospelsShall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos
Minor ProphetsOf the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
LawLest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
Exodus
LawFor they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exodus
LawThe king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOur soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Psalms
PoetryThen shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesGo forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.