I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Judges
HistoryAnd thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
WisdomWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Leviticus
LawAnd Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exodus
LawAnd when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryShall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus
LawAnd of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Joshua
HistoryWherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke
GospelsAnd these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBy this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.