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«Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.»
«And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, / That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: beards, fourscore, Gedaliah, Shechem, Shiloh, slain
«And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Vex the Midianites, and smite them: / For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.»
«And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; / Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: beheld, slain, The Lamb, thousand times
«And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, / But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: / Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: / And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.»
«And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: / And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: / And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: / And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: / But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.»
«And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: slain
«And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Beor, Hur, Midian, Reba, slain
«And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Athaliah, rejoiced, slain
«I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awile. Then I shall rise and fight again. The title of champion may from time to time fall to others more than ourselves. But the heart, the spirit, and the soul of champions remains in Green Bay.»