And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Mark
GospelsBehold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
WisdomBut ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Acts
History / LukeEven him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesLet them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewDraw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumWhither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetryWhere is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
2 Kings
HistoryThe sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Matthew
GospelsThey shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Joshua
HistoryAnd David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAfterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWoe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.