Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
Numbers
LawAnd Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAfter these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Esther
HistoryAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
History / SamuelSon of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOthers said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
John
Gospels / JohnIn his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
2 Samuel
HistoryCanst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
Job
WisdomTherefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
John
Gospels / JohnShe maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Proverbs
WisdomArise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis
LawAnd he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.