And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
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But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Judges
History / SamuelHe fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSaying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
John
GospelsBut he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielShall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job
WisdomAnd they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luke
GospelsAm I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;