And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Mark
GospelsThey shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
1 Kings
HistoryHe hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut ye have not so learned Christ;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBlessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mark
GospelsMoreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra
HistorySo Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewO LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Joshua
HistoryThus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.