And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWe have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFree among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms
PoetryNow Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
John
Gospels / JohnBut we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSeeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John
General EpistlesThe place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Acts
HistoryAnd he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.
1 Samuel
HistoryBy terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms
PoetryTo deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.