And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
Exodus
Law / MosesEvery one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesIf his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job
WisdomWho immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
Acts
History / LukeBut Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Acts
HistoryBlessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs
WisdomWho knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job
WisdomAnd by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Matthew
GospelsThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1 Samuel
HistoryFor then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel
HistoryThese are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
1 Chronicles
HistoryEver learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.