Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms
PoetryBut the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
2 Kings
HistoryThat this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Leviticus
LawBenaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
Ezra
HistoryThus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deuteronomy
LawEven of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBut he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
Matthew
GospelsThey said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
John
GospelsFor I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesEven those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesTake the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBe not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job
WisdomWhen the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?