And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
Judges
History / SamuelAs the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Matthew
GospelsAll they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Luke
GospelsThey meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job
Wisdom / JobThere were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
Acts
HistoryAnd Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua
HistoryTo go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
Acts
HistoryTheir horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsIn the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
HistoryThen the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
Acts
HistoryAnd both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
John
GospelsThen Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua
HistoryThe LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.