And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhich leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job
WisdomBut when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Kings
HistorySo the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHow much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job
WisdomAnd now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsKedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job
WisdomEgypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanMaachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers
LawAnd he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.