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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Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBe still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAs he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThough thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
Gospels / JohnSo Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
HistoryNow if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Job
WisdomIn the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus
Law / MosesYea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exodus
LawThey hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDo good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.