And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsThe tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
HistoryBlessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Judges
HistoryAnd now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Ezra
HistoryAnd ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAll sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalms
PoetryAnd the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts
HistoryAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhen Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.