And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
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For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Acts
HistoryBe of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesBut if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Solomon's Song
PoetryWherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
John
Gospels / JohnBlessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryTherefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John
GospelsAnd the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus
LawAnd he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryThe sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs
WisdomFor all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Exodus
LawAnd his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.