Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
Judges
History / SamuelNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIs this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
Luke
GospelsThus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesOne dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesHezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
1 Kings
HistoryHow oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.