For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings
HistoryI said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers
LawNeither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
Exodus
LawThe mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Acts
HistoryThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryYe are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John
General EpistlesBut he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
1 Samuel
HistoryYet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
Joshua
HistoryAnd in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke
Gospels / LukeZebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.