And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
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Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Genesis
LawThe word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Acts
History / LukeFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis
Law / MosesCan a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
Acts
HistoryThen shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job
Wisdom / JobIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
Mark
GospelsHow long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Numbers
LawAnd the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.