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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
Genesis
LawHe built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Exodus
LawLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Judges
HistoryBut he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAlso the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
Joshua
HistoryPraise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
Psalms
PoetryBecause thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
Nehemiah
HistoryBehold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Revelation
ApocalypticIf I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: