Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis
LawAnd he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job
WisdomAnd Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
Esther
History / MordecaiDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWho humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
Numbers
LawWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryBe not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Proverbs
WisdomFor word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSalute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.