Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawAnd this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Matthew
GospelsJoel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
LawThy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job
WisdomLet the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Numbers
LawNow therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
John
GospelsAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Judges
History / SamuelAnd she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
Numbers
LawThe wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPaul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.