So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms
PoetryWhy trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYe daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luke
GospelsFor the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
Nehemiah
HistoryHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
Psalms
PoetryAnd five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus
LawLet Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawI will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: