For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSo the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John
Gospels / JohnThy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms
PoetryAnd so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawI said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.