But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
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The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy
LawRemember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
Nehemiah
HistoryMy tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryLet the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms
PoetryThe king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus
LawAnd they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawI wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms
PoetryLet the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
2 Kings
HistorySo that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis
LawYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsBut will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.