Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTheir sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Psalms
PoetryDepart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBecause I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
GospelsNow therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
Judges
History / SamuelThe heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd 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
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.
1 Samuel
HistoryIt cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.