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:
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And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs
WisdomOnce have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
Judges
HistoryThou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew
GospelsFor I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
Amos
Minor ProphetsIf any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
Acts
HistoryAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
Joshua
HistoryAnd say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.