And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesTurn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Psalms
PoetryThen Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThey kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
GospelsAlso of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Ezra
History / EzraBut Solomon built him an house.
Acts
HistoryFor whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNone that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs
WisdomIn his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Daniel
Major ProphetsNow David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNow the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,