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.
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And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
Genesis
Law / Moses(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
2 Kings
HistoryIf then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
Luke
GospelsBut when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts
HistoryHe smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Psalms
PoetryThe rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs
WisdomFor the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBy humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Esther
History / MordecaiIf there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Job
WisdomFor now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Deuteronomy
LawThen the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
Leviticus
LawThen the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.