And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew
GospelsThen Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
Mark
GospelsAnd they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges
HistoryAnd they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
Judges
HistoryO sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryBeautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBeware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulO send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSaying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.