This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2 Kings
HistoryAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
John
GospelsAnd if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis
LawAnd Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Acts
History / LukeAnd Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job
WisdomFor indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThe highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.