And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
1 Kings
HistoryYea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
WisdomAnd the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Genesis
LawSo mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Acts
HistoryBut I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Joshua
HistoryNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
Ezra
HistoryAnd he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
Luke
GospelsThou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawIt shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
Deuteronomy
LawWherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.