And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAt the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John
GospelsWhen a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
Matthew
GospelsCome ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs
WisdomAfter that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
1 Samuel
HistoryBut Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther
HistoryAnd straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
Mark
GospelsLet me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
John
GospelsAnd Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMeraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Genesis
LawAnd those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesGilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
PoetryAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?