Old Testament Bible Facts (KJV)

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Moses was commissioned by God at the burning bush to bring Israel out of bondage.

And Moses went up unto God upon mount Sinai.

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone.

Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Joseph interpreted the dreams as seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.

The Protestant Old Testament contains 39 books, from Genesis to Malachi.

Genesis 1:1 is the opening verse of the Bible.

The book of Psalms contains 150 chapters.

Psalm 23 is the beloved shepherd psalm of David.

King David is credited with at least 73 psalms.

Psalm 119 has 176 verses, organized by the Hebrew alphabet.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.

Psalm 91 is the great psalm of refuge under the Almighty's wings.

Be still, and know that I am God.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness.

Psalm 117, with only two verses, is the shortest chapter in the Bible.

Abraham is called the friend of God in James 2:23.

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.

God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much.

Rahab the harlot received the messengers with peace.

The angel Gabriel was sent from God… to a virgin… and the virgin's name was Mary.

Ruth's loyalty to Naomi is one of Scripture's tenderest moments.

Matthew left the receipt of custom to follow Christ.

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths.

Stephen was stoned for his bold witness to Christ.

Saul, later called Paul, met the risen Christ in a great light.

And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

The angel of the LORD appeared… in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.

And Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die.

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea… and the waters were divided.

And Moses went up unto God… upon mount Sinai.

And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna.

Your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.

Because ye believed me not… ye shall not bring this congregation into the land.

And Moses went up… unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren.

Behold, he keepeth the sheep.

And he chose him five smooth stones out of the brook.

The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David.

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David.

And David sent and inquired after the woman… Bathsheba.

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.

And Absalom… stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father.

I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but… Abraham.

As for Sarai thy wife… Sarah shall her name be.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine.

Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac… and offer him… for a burnt offering.

And behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.

In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son.

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

And he was called the Friend of God.

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood.

Shem, and Ham, and Japheth.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off.

The ark rested… upon the mountains of Ararat.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant.

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And saved Noah… a preacher of righteousness.

Nebuchadnezzar… besieged Jerusalem… brought… into the land of Shinar.

Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat.

Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah — also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled.

And this is the writing… MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.

He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed.

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths.

Then king Darius wrote unto all people… peace be multiplied.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people.

There shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning.

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon.

Call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD.

The prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty.

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice.

He came thither unto a cave… and behold, the LORD passed by.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah.

Elisha the son of Shaphat… shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

And the angel Gabriel was sent from God.

To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph.

And Mary arose… and went… unto the house of… Elisabeth.

My soul doth magnify the Lord… (Magnificat).

And laid him in a manger; because there was no room.

Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt.

There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there.

His mother saith… Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!

These all continued… in prayer… with Mary the mother of Jesus.

Moses' minister, Joshua the son of Nun.

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid.

Caleb… and Joshua the son of Nun… rent their clothes.

And came into an harlot's house, named Rahab.

And the waters which came down from above stood.

On the seventh day… they compassed the city seven times.

Achan… took of the accursed thing.

Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

These are the inheritances which… distributed for inheritance by lot.

As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

David comforted Bathsheba his wife… and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people.

Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

And Solomon built the house, and finished it.

In seven years was he in building it.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon… she came to prove him.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.

His wives turned away his heart after other gods.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher.

And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

He and his wife, and his two sons… went to sojourn in the country of Moab.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's.

Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.

Her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz.

The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.

A man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour.

And they called his name Obed.

Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

The king loved Esther above all the women… so that he set the royal crown upon her head.

Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment.

And he brought up… Esther, his uncle's daughter.

Hadassah, that is, Esther.

Haman… sought to destroy all the Jews.

Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Fast ye for me… three days, night or day.

And if I perish, I perish.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

They called these days Purim after the name of Pur.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job.

A perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil.

There were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle… and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Then said his wife unto him… curse God, and die.

Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord.

Above it stood the seraphims… And one cried unto another, Holy, holy, holy.

Having a live coal in his hand… and he laid it upon my mouth.

Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah.

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees… ten degrees backward.

They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.

Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

And they shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

These nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

They cast him into the dungeon… and in the dungeon there was no water, but mire.

I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you… thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote… all the words of the LORD.

Lamentations laments the fall of Jerusalem.

Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron.

He shall be thy spokesman unto the people.

Aaron cast down his rod… and it became a serpent.

Take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother… that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

He… made it a molten calf.

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands.

Behold, the rod of Aaron… brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son.

Aaron died there in the top of the mount.

Thy name shall not be called any more Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

Abram's wife was Sarai.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself.

Sarah was ninety years old, and bare a son.

Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh.

Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian.

Cast out this bondwoman and her son.

Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old.

Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah.

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed… because she judged him faithful who had promised.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The LORD God… took one of his ribs… made he a woman.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field.

And Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens.

I do set my bow in the cloud.

I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees.

Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac.

Esau sold his birthright unto Jacob.

They sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver.

She took for him an ark of bulrushes… and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

The bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Ten plagues fell upon Egypt before Pharaoh let Israel go.

All the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die.

The LORD caused the sea to go back… and made the sea dry land.

It is manna: for they wist not what it was.

Moses went up unto God… in the mount Sinai.

He… made it a molten calf.

Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.

Proverbs 9:10.

Proverbs 15:1.

Proverbs 3:5.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Train up a child in the way he should go.

Proverbs 17:22.

The book of Proverbs has 31 chapters.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Proverbs 27:17.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ.

There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

He went up into a mountain… and taught them.

Matthew 5:5.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father…

Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come.

Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.

And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 28:19.

The Gospel of Matthew has 28 chapters.

The Lord called unto Moses out of the tabernacle of the congregation.

No meat offering shall be made with leaven, nor any honey.

Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire and died before the LORD.

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, that shall ye eat.

The goat shall be let go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof.

The law commands: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Aaron was commanded to cause the lamps to burn continually.

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year... it shall be a jubile unto you.

He that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death.

The Lord commanded Moses to number every male from twenty years old and upward.

The Levites were appointed over the tabernacle of testimony and all its vessels.

A Nazarite separated himself to the Lord and let the locks of his hair grow.

There went forth a wind from the LORD and brought quails from the sea.

Moses sent one man from every tribe of their fathers to search the land.

Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh stilled the people.

The rod of Aaron was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms.

Moses lifted up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice.

Moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole for the people to look upon.

The LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done?

This is the great commandment known as the Shema.

Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo.

Moses reminded the people of how God fed them with manna to teach this lesson.

The blessing was put upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died.

Only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants.

The LORD said unto Moses that Joshua should cause Israel to inherit the land.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment.

Moses stated the LORD was wroth with him for their sakes and would not hear him.

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Ehud, a Benjamite, was a man lefthanded who delivered Israel from Moab.

Deborah, a prophetess, dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel.

Gideon put a fleece of wool in the floor to seek a sign from God.

The LORD said the three hundred men that lapped would save Israel.

Abimelech went unto his father's house and slew his brethren, being threescore and ten persons.

Jephthah vowed that whatsoever came forth of his doors to meet him would be the LORD'S.

A young lion roared against him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid.

Samson found a new jawbone of an ass and slew a thousand men therewith.

Delilah pressed him daily until his soul was vexed unto death and he told her all his heart.

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars and bowed himself with all his might.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child after the third time.

Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord.

Saul was the son of Kish, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

The Lord sent Samuel to Jesse the Bethlehemite to provide a king among his sons.

David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone.

The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David.

Saul sought a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.

An Amalekite came out of the camp from Saul and told David he had stood upon him and slew him.

The men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah in Hebron.

Abner took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and made him king over all Israel.

Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, and God smote him there for his error.

Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw king David leaping and dancing.

The Lord sent Nathan unto David to rebuke him for his sin regarding Uriah.

David restored the land of Saul to Mephibosheth and allowed him to eat at his table.

Absalom's head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth.

Joab took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom.

David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver and built an altar.

Adonijah the son of Haggith attempted to seize the throne before Solomon was anointed.

Solomon asked for an understanding heart to judge the people and discern between good and bad.

Construction began in the fourth year of his reign, 480 years after the children of Israel came out of Egypt.

While the temple took seven years, Solomon spent thirteen years building his own palace.

The Queen of Sheba came with a very great train to test Solomon's wisdom.

Jeroboam the son of Nebat was promised ten tribes because of Solomon's idolatry.

Rehoboam's refusal to lighten the people's yoke led to the rebellion of the ten tribes.

The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and in the evening.

Elijah stood alone against four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal.

Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell his inheritance, for which he was falsely accused and stoned.

There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind.

Elisha asked, 'I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.'

He went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there.

Naaman was a great man with his master, but he was a leper.

Elisha sent a messenger saying, 'Go and wash in Jordan seven times.'

He cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign.

Hilkiah the high priest said, 'I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.'

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem.

The book begins its vast genealogy with the first man, Adam.

David is listed as the seventh son of Jesse in the genealogical record.

Jabez prayed, 'Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast.'

Saul died for his unfaithfulness and for seeking a medium instead of the Lord.

David took the castle of Zion, which is thereafter called the city of David.

The anger of the Lord was kindled because Uzza touched the ark when the oxen stumbled.

Seeing King David dancing and playing, Michal despised him in her heart.

God declared that David's seed, who should come after him, would build the house.

The text states that 'Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.'

David purchased the place from Ornan for six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to judge the people, and God granted it.

Huram (Hiram) of Tyre sent cedar, fir, and a skillful worker to Solomon.

The glory of the Lord filled the house in the form of a cloud.

The Queen of Sheba visited Solomon and marveled at his wisdom and prosperity.

Rehoboam followed the counsel of the young men and spoke roughly to the people.

Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord.

When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against their enemies.

Joash was hidden in the house of God six years while Athaliah reigned.

Uzziah's heart was lifted up and he transgressed by attempting to burn incense.

Hezekiah opened the doors of the house of the Lord and sanctified it.

Cyrus king of Persia was charged by the LORD to build him an house at Jerusalem.

Cyrus brought forth the vessels which Nebuchadnezzar had put in the house of his gods.

Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel rose up with Jeshua to build the altar.

The builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD with trumpets and cymbals.

Ancient men that had seen the first house wept when the foundation of this house was laid.

The adversaries said, 'Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do.'

Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo prophesied unto the Jews.

Ezra was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given.

Ezra proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava to afflict themselves before God.

The people had not separated themselves but had taken of the daughters of the lands for themselves.

Nehemiah served as the cupbearer to King Artaxerxes.

Artaxerxes the king noticed Nehemiah's sadness and granted his request.

Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant mocked their efforts.

The wall was finished in fifty and two days.

The builders labored with one hand and held a weapon in the other.

Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood and read the law.

When Ezra opened the book, all the people stood up.

Nehemiah declared, 'for the joy of the LORD is your strength.'

They found it written in the law that they should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month.

He commanded the gates be shut when it began to be dark before the sabbath.

The Preacher declares that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

The text pairs the time to be born with a time to die.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

The scripture notes that a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

The Preacher warns of the time 'or ever the silver cord be loosed.'

The Preacher famously observes there is no new thing under the sun.

He notes that the battle is not always to the strong.

The text says to cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The youth are exhorted to remember now thy Creator.

The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments.

She says she is black like the tents of Kedar, but comely as the curtains of Solomon.

The speaker declares, 'I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.'

He asks to see her countenance and hear her voice, for her voice is sweet.

The text says, 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines.'

He says her hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount Gilead.

The text states, 'Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.'

He calls her 'a garden inclosed... a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.'

The watchmen that went about the city found her, smote her, and wounded her.

The scripture says, 'for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.'

The text declares, 'Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.'

The book begins by mourning the emptiness of the once-crowded city.

She that was great among the nations is become as a widow.

Great is His faithfulness; His compassions fail not and are new every morning.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled.

The text encourages bearing the yoke of discipline early in life.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

The sons of Zion were comparable to fine gold.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger.

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord... renew our days as of old.

Ezekiel was among the captives by the river Chebar when he saw visions of God.

The four faces were of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle.

The Lord commanded him to eat the roll, and it was in his mouth as honey for sweetness.

The Lord said, 'I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.'

Ezekiel beheld women sitting weeping for Tammuz at the door of the Lord's house.

God declared that every soul shall bear its own iniquity, ending this proverb.

The prophecy against Tyrus (Tyre) stated it would be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea.

As he prophesied, the bones came together, bone to his bone.

The word of the Lord was directed against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

The name of the city from that day shall be, 'The Lord is there' (Jehovah-shammah).

The word of the LORD came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri.

The LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms.

The LORD said, Call his name Jezreel; for I will avenge the blood of Jezreel.

The scripture saith, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Ephraim is a cake not turned, being mixed among the people.

The prophet warns that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

The book begins by identifying Joel as the son of Pethuel.

Joel describes a series of locusts that have devoured the land.

The LORD calls them to 'rend your heart, and not your garments.'

The prophecy states, 'And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit.'

The scripture says 'The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.'

The LORD says He will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat.

In a reversal of other prophecies, Joel says to beat 'your pruninghooks into spears.'

The text commands, 'let the weak say, I am strong.'

Joel 3:14 speaks of 'Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.'

The text says 'a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD.'

Amos told Amaziah he was no prophet's son, but a herdman and gatherer of sycomore fruit.

The book begins by identifying Amos as being among the herdmen of Tekoa.

The Lord desires that judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The Lord stood upon a wall with a plumbline in his hand to show He would set a plumbline in Israel.

God promised a famine not of bread, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam saying Amos had conspired against him.

Amos uses this rhetorical question to illustrate the necessity of agreement for fellowship.

The Lord said the basket of summer fruit meant the end was come upon His people.

Amos exhorts the people to seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion.

The Lord promises to raise up the tabernacle of David and close up the breaches thereof.

The Lord saith, 'Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom.'

The scripture says, 'The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee.'

They dwelt in the 'clefts of the rock' and had a high habitation.

The Lord says, 'Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle.'

Grapegatherers would leave 'some gleaning grapes,' but Edom's enemies would steal until they had enough.

The text asks, 'How are the things of Esau searched out!'

Judgment came 'For thy violence against thy brother Jacob.'

The Lord commanded, 'But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother.'

The scripture states, 'For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen.'

The promise is that 'upon mount Zion shall be deliverance.'

The Lord told Jonah to go to Nineveh because their wickedness was come up before Him.

Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and was fast asleep.

They cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah said, 'I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord.'

Jonah cried and said, 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'

The king published a decree that both man and beast be covered with sackcloth.

The Lord God prepared a gourd to come up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head.

The Lord noted there were more than six score thousand persons who could not discern their right hand from their left.

Micah 1:4 states the mountains shall be molten under him.

The text says they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 4:1 declares it shall be established in the top of the mountains.

The prophecy says they shall beat their swords into plowshares.

The verse promises every man shall sit under his vine and fig tree.

Micah 5:2 famously predicts the Ruler's origin in Bethlehem Ephratah.

Micah 6:8 lists walking humbly with God as a core requirement.

The scripture says a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Micah 7:8 states, 'when I fall, I shall arise'.

Micah 7:19 says thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

The opening verse identifies the prophecy as 'The burden of Nineveh.'

Nahum 1:2 states that 'the Lord reserveth wrath for his enemies.'

The scripture says, 'the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm.'

Nahum 1:3 declares that 'the clouds are the dust of his feet.'

Nahum 1:7 says, 'The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble.'

Nahum 1:15 asks us to behold 'the feet of him that bringeth good tidings.'

Nahum 2:3 states, 'The shield of his mighty men is made red.'

Nahum 2:8 says, 'But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water.'

Nahum 3:1 cries woe to the city that is 'all full of lies and robbery.'

Nahum 3:8 mentions 'populous No' (Thebes) as an example of a fallen city.

Habakkuk begins by lamenting that he cries out of violence and the Lord will not save.

The LORD describes them as a bitter and hasty nation.

Habakkuk acknowledges that God is of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on iniquity.

The prophet set himself upon the tower to watch for the LORD's answer.

The vision was to be made plain so that he may run that readeth it.

This famous verse declares that 'the just shall live by his faith.'

The scripture promises the earth will be filled with the knowledge of His glory.

Habakkuk 2:20 states, 'But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.'

The prophet prays, 'in wrath remember mercy.'

Habakkuk concludes with a song of trust, rejoicing in the God of his salvation.

The LORD declares He will consume all things from off the land.

The genealogy of Zephaniah is traced back to Hizkiah (Hezekiah).

Zephaniah prophesied in the days of Josiah the son of Amon.

The LORD punishes those 'settled on their lees' who say the LORD will not do good or evil.

The prophet describes it as a day of wrath, trouble, distress, and gloominess.

The prophet calls the nation to gather together before the decree brings fierce anger.

The LORD stretches out His hand against the north to destroy Assyria and Nineveh.

The text states 'Her princes within her are roaring lions.'

The LORD promises to 'turn to the people a pure language.'

The KJV says 'he will joy over thee with singing.'

The prophecy began in the second year of Darius the king.

The word was sent to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah.

The people said, 'The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.'

The LORD twice commands the people to 'Consider your ways.'

He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

The LORD commanded them to 'Go up to the mountain, and bring wood.'

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former.

The LORD of hosts promised, 'and in this place will I give peace.'

The priests answered and said, 'No.'

The LORD said He would make Zerubbabel 'as a signet.'

Zechariah saw a man riding upon a red horse among the myrtle trees.

The prophet beheld four horns which scattered the people of God.

Zechariah saw a man with a measuring line in his hand to measure the city.

Satan stood at his right hand to resist him in the presence of the angel.

The LORD commanded to take away the filthy garments from him.

The LORD declared it is 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit'.

The prophet looked and beheld a flying roll.

The King is described as just, lowly, and riding upon an ass.

They weighed for his price thirty pieces of silver.

In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.

The Lord declares, 'I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau.'

The priests are accused of offering 'polluted bread' upon the altar.

God declares His name shall be great among the Gentiles from the rising of the sun.

The Lord speaks of His covenant being with Levi for the fear wherewith he feared Him.

The KJV uses the term 'putting away' to refer to divorce.

The Lord says, 'Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.'

The Lord says, 'I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.'

God asks, 'Will a man rob God?' and specifies 'In tithes and offerings.'

A book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the LORD.

The final chapter promises, 'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet.'

The elder writes specifically to the elect lady and her children, whom he loves in the truth.

John states the truth dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever.

He rejoiced greatly that he found of her children walking in truth.

The text says, 'And this is love, that we walk after his commandments.'

Many deceivers enter the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.

He warns them to look to themselves so they lose not those things which they have wrought.

The scripture states that he that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ 'hath not God.'

John instructs not to receive such a person into your house, neither bid him God speed.

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

John hoped to come and speak face to face, that their joy might be full.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart.

Proverbs 1:7.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David.

Ecclesiastes 1:2.

Ecclesiastes 3:1.

James 3:17.

Proverbs 25:11.

Proverbs 13:20.

The queen of Sheba… came to prove him with hard questions.

All the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

The frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

There came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh.

I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell.

There shall be a very grievous murrain.

Moses took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh.

The LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground.

There was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

When I see the blood, I will pass over you.

The Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh.

Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD.

Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea.

The LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night.

The pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.

The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.

The waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand.

I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously.

Joshua the son of Nun called the priests.

As captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.

Ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once.

Seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns.

The seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times.

All the people shall shout with a great shout.

The wall fell down flat.

Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household.

Thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window.

He shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

There shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

Hide thyself by the brook Cherith.

I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

He arose and went to Zarephath.

The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

He stretched himself upon the child three times.

Gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel.

Fill four barrels with water… Do it the second time… Do it the third time.

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice.

Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Genesis 1:1.

Darkness was upon the face of the deep.

The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Let there be light: and there was light.

God called the firmament Heaven.

And God made two great lights… and… the stars also.

God created great whales… and every winged fowl.

God created man in his own image.

Have dominion over… every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field.

Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree.

Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat.

It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins.

He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword.

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house… nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

When the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Psalm 91:1.

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand.

He shall give his angels charge over thee.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Psalm 119 has 176 verses, arranged by the Hebrew alphabet.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

Give not thy strength unto women.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain.

A woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.

With his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb.

He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death.

He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

The sacrifice of thanksgiving… offer it of thy own free will.

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise.

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD.

Solomon… offered… sacrifices of peace offerings… the priests… and the Levites… stood to praise the LORD.

Jesus took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them.

There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Rejoice in the Lord alway… with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow… and every tongue confess.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth… Let there be light: and there was light.

Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters… and God called the firmament Heaven.

God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear… Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree.

God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth.

Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth… So God created man in his own image.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work… and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam… and took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh… and made he a woman.

Jesus… departed into a mountain to pray.

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

The king… commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.

Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.

Could ye not watch with me one hour?

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Pray without ceasing.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

The LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Bring the tribe of Levi near…

If any soul… will offer his oblation… he shall offer it of his own voluntary will… a burnt sacrifice.

The burnt offering wholly ascended to God, representing total dedication.

The tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement… to make an atonement for you.

Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering… and he shall take the two goats.

The goat… shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

The phrase 'I am the LORD' appears repeatedly throughout Leviticus as the seal of divine authority.

Six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard… but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land.

Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years… and ye shall hallow the fiftieth year.

Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families…

Send thou men… of every tribe a man… Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan.

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness… forty years… ye shall bear your whoredoms.

Aaron's rod… was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Balak… sent messengers therefore unto Balaam… to curse this people.

The LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee?

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?… There shall come a Star out of Jacob.

Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died.

Deuteronomy means 'second law' — Moses rehearsed the law for the new generation.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.

Unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there.

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and will put my words in his mouth.

Thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab… and he buried him in a valley… but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died.

The LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan… the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea… the south, and the plain.

Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land.

Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly… and they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab.

Thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by.

The waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap… and the people passed over right against Jericho.

On the seventh day… compass the city seven times… and it came to pass at the seventh time… the wall fell down flat.

The ark of the covenant of the LORD… abode in the midst of the camp.

Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

The sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Choose you this day whom ye will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

The children of Israel did evil… the LORD delivered them into the hand of… they cried unto the LORD… the LORD raised up a deliverer.

Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Jael… took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples.

The people that are with thee are too many… there were still too many.

Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth… three hundred men.

When I blow with a trumpet… then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

Whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me… shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb.

Delilah said… Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth… and the lords of the Philistines brought up to her eleven hundred shekels of silver.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

There was a famine in the land… and a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Intreat me not to leave thee… for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.

Her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz.

Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not… let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her.

Spread thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself.

Now this was the manner in former time in Israel… a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour.

Boaz begat Obed of Ruth.

Ruth is in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Matthew 1:5.

Hannah… wept, and did not eat… she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid.

She took him up with her… unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh.

The LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

The ark of God was taken… and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

When they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.

Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

Saul… offered the burnt offering… thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God.

Samuel… anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.

David… took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.

David… cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily… The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed.

David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

Thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

David… saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon… and her name was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

David… wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah… Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.

Nathan said unto David… There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor… Thou art the man.

David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped.

His head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth… and David… said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad.

Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

He was seven years in building it.

The cloud filled the house of the LORD, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

Jeroboam… made Israel to sin.

Ahab… did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him… took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians.

How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him… call ye on the name of your gods.

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice… there was a great rain.

Behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire… and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters… It came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire.

Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

There came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master… but he was a leper.

Go and wash in Jordan seven times… and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

Gehazi… took the talents… and two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants.

The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever… and he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

The king of Assyria… found conspiracy in Hoshea… then the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

The Chaldees… burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house… and the walls of Jerusalem round about.

The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi… in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

I will stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee.

And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham.

I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah… and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests.

Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet.

These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts.

They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him.

And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne.

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God called the firmament Heaven.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear… And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind… And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Now the son of Saul was Jonathan.

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand.

And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul. Then Saul said to Jonathan… wherefore shall he be slain? And Jonathan shewed him all these things.

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?… for he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel.

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Jonathan knew David was God's chosen king, yet he loved him, protected him, and laid aside his own claim to the throne.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

The number seven appears throughout Scripture — seven days of creation, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven churches.

And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The Bible contains 66 books — 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah.

But Hannah had no children. And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid… but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her… and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God.

Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God… Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Nicodemus saith unto them, (He that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Nicodemus progressed from a secret night visitor to a public defender and faithful servant at Jesus' burial.

Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign upon Judah.

Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.

And in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites… and they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah… came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

Jehoshaphat joined affinity with Ahab by marrying his son to Ahab's daughter Athaliah, and later went to war with Ahab at Ramothgilead against God's warning.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

And the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.

And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again.

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine.

And he was the priest of the most high God.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth.

And he gave him tithes of all.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

First being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace.

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.

Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

And she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her.

Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.

And they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi.

And there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab.

He, and his wife, and his two sons… And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth.

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Call me not Naomi (pleasant), call me Mara (bitter): for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law… they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand.

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married.

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow.

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

And the LORD said unto Moses… let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

And he went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish.

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea.

And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.

And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.

And he had judged Israel forty years.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.

Now Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar.

Absalom… had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar.

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine… then kill him.

But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

And when he polled his head… he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate… So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus.

Bartimaeus… sat by the highway side begging.

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

And many charged him that he should hold his peace.

But he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called.

And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud… and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full.

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it.

And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire… And God spake all these words.

2 Samuel 11:3 (KJV) — The woman was 'Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.'

2 Samuel 11:2 (KJV) — David 'saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.'

2 Samuel 12:18 (KJV) — The LORD struck the child, and 'it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.'

2 Samuel 12:24 (KJV) — 'She bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.'

2 Samuel 12:24 (KJV) — 'And David comforted Bathsheba his wife.'

2 Samuel 12:3 (KJV) — Nathan's parable described the poor man's lamb as 'his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom.'

1 Kings 1:17 (KJV) — Bathsheba said, 'My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me.'

1 Kings 1:11-14 (KJV) — Nathan instructed Bathsheba to speak, then he would enter and confirm her words.

Matthew 1:6 (KJV) — 'And David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias.'