And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus
LawShall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah
HistoryFor one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke
GospelsTherefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawBut I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryShe is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Mark
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
LawBlessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
Genesis
Law / MosesYet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: