And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke
GospelsAnd in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesFurthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
James
General EpistlesFor all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTheir children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Matthew
GospelsAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges
HistoryHear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsArise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Luke
GospelsI have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms
PoetryTake hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Psalms
PoetryButter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.