As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
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Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job
Wisdom / JobWho in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts
History / LukeTheir tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCurse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
Acts
HistoryAnd they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawMan that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms
PoetryFor the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezra
History / EzraTake the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.