But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWho shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOnly they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Acts
HistoryTherefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSaul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1 Samuel
HistoryThere is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahYe shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis
LawNow there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNeither shalt thou steal.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryPrepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs
WisdomThen there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.