And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPraise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBut ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
John
GospelsLike as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua
HistoryYea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewCanst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Job
WisdomAnd there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Acts
History / LukeI am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonCome now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis
LawThen they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Luke
GospelsNow, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.