But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
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And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
Acts
HistoryThey shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
Genesis
Law / MosesIt is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryTo bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms
PoetryFor it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus
LawIn the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Revelation
ApocalypticMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
WisdomAnd they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Matthew
GospelsI made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.