All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
1 Samuel
HistoryIn journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John
GospelsThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Luke
GospelsAnd then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
Mark
Gospels / MarkWho hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonHe shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAnd the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
Exodus
LawThe heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
HistoryAlas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel
Minor ProphetsFor thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.