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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
Judges
HistoryGo not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
Numbers
LawThe LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they talked together of all these things which had happened.
Luke
GospelsAnd all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesCalled of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterEven as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWoe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: