He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis
LawAnd they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Luke
Gospels / LukeGreat is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psalms
PoetryThen the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAwake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAdd thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Judges
HistoryAll these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
John
GospelsBut the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelNow these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Judges
History / SamuelSon of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
1 Samuel
HistoryBlessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawThe ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.