And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOr have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job
WisdomAnd of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawBut of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
1 Kings
HistoryPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers
LawThe LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Psalms
PoetryFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;