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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThen said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms
PoetryMake no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2 Peter
General EpistlesThen they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts
History / LukeThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThat ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSurely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers
LawWhy are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDuke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.