And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThem hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Exodus
LawNow when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFrom following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Judges
HistoryCast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Mark
GospelsLet us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThe black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
Wisdom / JobIs not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelWhen thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Deuteronomy
LawNevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
Ezra
History / EzraBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.