And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomYea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAsahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
2 Samuel
HistoryBut they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIt is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John
Gospels / JohnThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSave only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Genesis
LawAnd the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielRemove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSince thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGive unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts
History / LukeTake therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
John
Gospels / JohnThe LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
History / SamuelBehold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.