And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
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And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTo keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy
LawA sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBecause he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNot according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSo I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus
LawFor Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
2 Kings
HistorySo that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryA good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
John
GospelsThou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.