I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Judges
HistoryAre they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Exodus
LawThou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job
Wisdom / JobSo Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesRepent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAfterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsJehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings
HistoryWhose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHis flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Job
WisdomFor ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBeat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel
Minor ProphetsOr if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Genesis
Law / MosesBut the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1 Kings
HistoryBut in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.