In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBe strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOr if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWatch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus
LawAnd went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahRedeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTheir idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
PoetryWhich bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLikewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.