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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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryLive joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
PoetryAnd when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts
HistoryBe ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis
LawAnd the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
Nehemiah
HistoryI am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
Acts
History / LukeAnd he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
Nehemiah
HistorySo they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther
HistoryAnd they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
Numbers
Law / MosesTo them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: