Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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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.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
1 Kings
HistoryLet them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms
PoetryAnd his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd many believed on him there.
John
Gospels / JohnSon of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
Luke
GospelsAnd they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts
History / LukeAnd they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Luke
GospelsSalute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesCast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah
HistoryThy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
Leviticus
LawGod setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Deuteronomy
LawUnto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.