And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job
Wisdom / JobFor I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGo thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesRemember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Psalms
PoetryNow the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Luke
GospelsAnd the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus
LawSo that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers
LawAnd he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
Psalms
PoetryFor if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Luke
Gospels / Luke(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Acts
HistoryThen came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLove ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Esther
History / MordecaiThat thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?