And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
Judges
History / SamuelOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSpecially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deuteronomy
LawTheir horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsHe said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
John
Gospels / JohnAll they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers
LawAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryThe king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Psalms
PoetryKeeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exodus
LawThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms
PoetryO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
Judges
HistorySay I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesGod is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Numbers
LawThe hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs
WisdomBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2 Kings
HistoryThou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.