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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Genesis
LawThey have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Judges
HistoryHelkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Joshua
HistoryI am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelShallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
Ezra
History / EzraOur persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
HistoryAnd Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Amos
Minor ProphetsPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
Law / MosesPass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
2 Samuel
HistoryRemove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Proverbs
WisdomThen Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.