Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
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In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBalaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job
Wisdom / JobHow much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew
GospelsFor they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Judges
History / SamuelSo they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
1 Kings
HistoryWhithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms
PoetryWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThink not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew
GospelsDrink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs
WisdomMicha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1 Kings
HistorySo then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Nehemiah
HistoryHave the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job
WisdomBut of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThis their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.