Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
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And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1 Chronicles
HistorySimon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke
GospelsAnd the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNeither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings
HistoryAwake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs
WisdomSo Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Exodus
LawBehold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.