The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor 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.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBecause of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThen asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Acts
HistoryAnd they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Acts
History / LukeFor this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesI will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersKnown unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Acts
History / LukeSeven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
HistoryNow the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Genesis
Law / MosesThere is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
James
General EpistlesAnd now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
1 Kings
HistoryLeah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Genesis
LawAnd Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;