And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTill I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luke
GospelsWhen they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
PoetryI make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra
History / EzraLet them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers
LawAnd Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John
Gospels / JohnLooking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWe have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
2 Kings
HistoryIf ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: