But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
Law / MosesYea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAs at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
Acts
History / LukeAnd after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Matthew
GospelsHold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalms
PoetryWhich are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
2 Kings
HistoryWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
John
GospelsBut he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James
General Epistles / JamesNevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)