Treasury of Scripture
The God
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
2 Chronicles 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD...
Psalm 20:5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Psalm 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified...
Psalm 102:13,14 You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, is come...
Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not your hand...
ye have no
Ezra 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them...
Acts 8:21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right in the sight of God.
memorial
Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place...
Leviticus 2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take out of there his handful of the flour thereof...
Leviticus 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Numbers 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months...
Isaiah 56:5 Even to them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters...
Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah...
Acts 10:4,31 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him...
(When Nehemiah had prayed for the relief of his countrymen, and perhaps in David's words, Ps.
51:18, he did not sit still and say, 'Let God now do his own work, for I have no more to do;' but set himself to do what he could towards it; and here we find that the people were of one heart with Nehemiah. Our prayers must be seconded with our serious endeavours, or else we mock God. Nearly four months had passed, namely, from Chisleu to Nisan (November to March), before Nehemiah made his application to the king for leave to go to Jerusalem; either because the winter was not a proper time for such a journey, and he would not make a motion till he could pursue it, or because it was so long before his month of waiting upon the king came, and there was no coming into his presence until called for. Es.
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nothing of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
. We are not thus limited to certain moments in our addresses to the King of kings, but have liberty of access to him at all times; to the throne of grace we never come unseasonably.)
