Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
