For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryThy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsHis mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Solomon's Song
PoetryMine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Judges
HistoryTo whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhere thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Ruth
HistoryEvery day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms
PoetryBut which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
Luke
GospelsAnd the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus
LawBut God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges
HistoryThen Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.