But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
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He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Genesis
LawThe voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Psalms
PoetryBut whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John
General EpistlesAnd to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job
WisdomAnd the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Acts
HistoryHe saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
Mark
GospelsAnd he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Judges
History / SamuelBut the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Job
Wisdom / JobHear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesHide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psalms
PoetryBut unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.