And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
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TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobBut those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis
LawThen Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryLove worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
LawHer children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus
LawAnd two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus
LawNow if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesLikewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesNeither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThat which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThree times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.
2 Samuel
HistoryPreserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psalms
PoetryBut Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.