And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis
LawAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Matthew
GospelsDeclare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis
Law / MosesGo and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThat hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAs touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAlso Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Psalms
PoetryBut Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.