And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
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And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Acts
HistoryAnd Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Acts
History / LukeFor he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Micah
Minor ProphetsYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job
WisdomAnd my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhy are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHaving then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy
LawHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / Jeremiah(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
Luke
GospelsMoses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWhen all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.