And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukBut his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Genesis
Law / MosesThat ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
Numbers
LawHe hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
Luke
GospelsThe heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.