And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNotwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
Mark
GospelsAnd the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis
LawThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy
LawThe children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraSo they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Numbers
LawAnd Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis
LawThus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGive ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.