But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Joshua
HistoryBut, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos
Minor ProphetsIn the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
WisdomCommanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Acts
HistoryWho rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOf the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers
LawAnd Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
1 Kings
HistoryBut those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Genesis
LawNow both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
John
GospelsAlso he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAfter these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
John
GospelsBlow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
2 Samuel
HistoryFrom twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers
LawAnd the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSaying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Acts
HistoryFor the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryAnd Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: