Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
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He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulDefile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawFor the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms
PoetryFor there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Matthew
GospelsWhere no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luke
GospelsThen all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahCarry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;