And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
Numbers
LawBrethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesSo that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalms
PoetryWhosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John
General EpistlesThen I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMoreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
Genesis
Law / MosesA good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Luke
GospelsFor it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYour mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThere the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
1 Samuel
HistoryThe earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.