And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhich is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1 Kings
HistorySo Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
2 Samuel
HistoryMy bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job
WisdomOpen thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalms
PoetryNow Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWe asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
Ezra
HistoryTherefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Acts
HistoryAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
John
GospelsThe three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Acts
HistorySo was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
LawI will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
Matthew
GospelsAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.