And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Psalms
PoetryFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLabour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John
Gospels / JohnThou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
Judges
HistoryAnd enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
Judges
History / SamuelLo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
WisdomEvery man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
Genesis
LawTheir young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.