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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Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua
HistoryAnd thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
Exodus
LawThen began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLet thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Ruth
History / SamuelNow therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
2 Samuel
HistoryAt Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOr if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job
WisdomAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
LawNeither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielInstead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
1 Kings
HistoryThe children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,
Nehemiah
HistoryFor the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: