Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOnly unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaMine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms
PoetryCommand the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
Luke
GospelsAnd the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAlso they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2 Kings
HistoryHe croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
John
GospelsTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDo ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
2 Samuel
HistoryWithin two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Proverbs
WisdomThou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Ezra
History / EzraAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.