So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
Numbers
Law / MosesWho can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBy thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Numbers
Law / MosesI will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms
PoetryThe people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNeither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Genesis
LawLet both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Matthew
GospelsWhereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy
LawThen will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Joshua
History / JoshuaConfess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
Gospels / JohnA wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;