And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
Numbers
Law / MosesSon of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Luke
GospelsWhen goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus
LawAnd he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Kings
HistoryIf thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLikewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke
GospelsThen said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
Matthew
GospelsAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraO God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus
LawThe Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
Matthew
GospelsIf these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.