The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOut of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Judges
HistoryAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs
WisdomYe have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThere went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
Leviticus
LawHow think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGo, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
2 Samuel
HistoryAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
GospelsJesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
John
Gospels / JohnBut he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhile Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts
HistoryWill he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.