The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
LawI will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
Joshua
HistoryAnd fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
Luke
GospelsTurn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBecause of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus
Law / Moses(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhy trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Matthew
GospelsHath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.