And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
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The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job
WisdomAnd he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
Luke
GospelsWhy should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Deuteronomy
LawBut and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Luke
Gospels / LukeLight is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSave me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
Psalms
PoetryVerily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
John
GospelsTo Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWho, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMoreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBetter is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.