And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
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And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesWith long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryAnd not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings
HistoryTheir widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahKeep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.