Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis
LawThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
Esther
History / MordecaiClouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Psalms
PoetryFor by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Job
WisdomAnd on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Exodus
LawAnd Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
1 Kings
HistoryLift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalms
PoetryAnd to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
Matthew
GospelsNotwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.