Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOf the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
LawAnd Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus
LawHe that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua
History / JoshuaSurely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis
LawAnd I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalms
PoetryThrough God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms
PoetryThat frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers
LawPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
Deuteronomy
LawThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
Wisdom / JobA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;