And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Judges
HistoryIt is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job
WisdomWho provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job
WisdomAnd Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesFor he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Judges
HistoryAnd as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Luke
GospelsAnd the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John
GospelsAnd they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.