Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
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1 Chronicles
HistorySaying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
Matthew
GospelsAnd his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
Judges
HistoryIf they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAs thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis
LawFor the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSpeak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Numbers
LawNeither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
Genesis
LawThat I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.