Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
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The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCame unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
Acts
HistoryAnd they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
Ruth
HistoryAnd when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
2 Kings
HistorySo the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
Esther
HistoryAnd he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Acts
History / LukeMoreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOne thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job
WisdomAnd a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Genesis
LawThou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThey were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.