And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
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And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThis is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Leviticus
LawFor the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers
LawShall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John
GospelsFor this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesYe that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUpright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job
WisdomForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Daniel
Major ProphetsNow the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Judges
HistoryAnd Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: