And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
Mark
GospelsAnd Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John
Gospels / JohnHow that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Matthew
GospelsAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
HistoryMen shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesNevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms
PoetryThen said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John
GospelsThen Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAll the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
WisdomAnd Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.