Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings
HistoryHe shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job
WisdomAnd when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhen thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewEat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis
LawWho hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahVerily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus
Law / MosesBless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings
HistoryWhat is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?