How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesLay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Proverbs
WisdomFor they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
1 Kings
HistoryFor she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawThen I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomFor thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHowbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job
WisdomBut Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Mark
GospelsThe Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,