And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms
PoetryWhen the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy
LawFor to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Acts
History / LukeAnd shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomThese things command and teach.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Psalms
PoetryNone that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs
WisdomBut let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Numbers
Law / MosesLikewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
James
General EpistlesWho hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
Mark
GospelsFor by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Job
WisdomThe LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaYea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Mark
GospelsAnd their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: