Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
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And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
Matthew
GospelsAnd the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
Acts
HistoryAnd I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhen God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua
HistoryNow therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen 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 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts
HistoryDavid therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIt is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Exodus
Law / MosesSo Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnother parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.