But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryO God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Psalms
PoetryBut the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
Ruth
HistoryFor he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBecause he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
WisdomBut lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews
General EpistlesHow is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2 Kings
HistoryBut there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
Acts
HistorySaying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Matthew
GospelsBut Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Esther
HistoryAnd it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Exodus
LawI am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.