But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
1 Kings
HistorySit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra
HistoryTill a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings
HistoryThrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesBlessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
Luke
GospelsAnd he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Exodus
LawAnd when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts
History / LukeTherefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMy times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Genesis
LawThen the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryHe maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Genesis
LawBut he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;