And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis
LawA little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
John
GospelsAnd when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
Judges
HistoryThe mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsBut the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesLikewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterLet us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Hebrews
General EpistlesHe coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus
LawFor after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
Mark
GospelsAnd another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matthew
GospelsFor he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBut he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.