And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAn end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLikewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel
HistoryLet the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.
Ezra
History / EzraIs my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job
WisdomAnd Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
2 Kings
HistoryTheir pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
Mark
GospelsNot to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.