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:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterTwo and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryMy lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
Numbers
Law / MosesThere is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Proverbs
WisdomThe length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
Psalms
PoetryZebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Judges
History / SamuelThey soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
1 Samuel
HistoryEsteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWho knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Judges
History / SamuelEvening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.