But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
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As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhich doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark
GospelsEven the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsTherefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Judges
History / SamuelBut he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs
WisdomOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus
LawAnd I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts
HistoryAnd the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThough he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanMy soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
Joshua
History / JoshuaMy Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.