I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
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Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2 Kings
HistoryIf ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNot to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts
HistorySo that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
Genesis
Law / MosesBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThis shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass offering of their's, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
Numbers
Law / MosesWho knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhat thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBecause thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
Acts
HistoryAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and Nathan(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Job
WisdomBeloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
3 John
General EpistlesThus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?