Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhich think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWe give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAs he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kings
HistorySo Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
John
Gospels / JohnThy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBoth low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalms
PoetryBut they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSalma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraCanst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
Wisdom / JobYet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: