And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
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Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiA people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis
LawSet ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThough ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobI am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges
HistoryFor what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke
GospelsAnd next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAs in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
Exodus
LawHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
Luke
GospelsAnd he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
Matthew
GospelsHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOne board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.