And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
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At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy
LawThe wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYour mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPreserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Judges
HistoryAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
Mark
GospelsBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAwake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Judges
HistoryThere is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1 Kings
HistoryBut I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Luke
GospelsThe one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThat he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Psalms
PoetryI cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;