The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms
PoetryLet the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetrySo there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exodus
LawA seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings
HistoryA man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiTherefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGo ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
John
GospelsIs not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.