And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosLet thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs
WisdomWhosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Luke
GospelsAnd king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHave mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate!
1 Chronicles
HistoryBless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
Joshua
HistoryAnd this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFurthermore Elihu answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobDid not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job
WisdomLet not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
Luke
GospelsAnd thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
Exodus
LawAnd the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
Exodus
LawAnd another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: