Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
Mark
GospelsFor by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Judges
HistoryWhen I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mark
GospelsHe delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhen I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job
WisdomThou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Exodus
LawThe children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
HistoryWherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Daniel
Major ProphetsUnleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.