And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThis is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus
LawThe children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraFor the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
Acts
History / LukeIt is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawTherefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSurely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnSo shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew
GospelsThen it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawAlways in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd Haphraim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Genesis
LawFor thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job
WisdomBread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.