For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
Deuteronomy
LawThen wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Exodus
LawBut the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
John
GospelsAnd though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHeaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts
HistoryAnd that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
Genesis
LawThou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBut he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?