And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Job
Wisdom / JobBetter is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBinding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThere is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalms
PoetryLikewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers
Law / MosesIs not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Genesis
Law / MosesOf the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
John
GospelsBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
Genesis
LawAnd they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.