Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
