Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
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There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Genesis
LawSeraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis
LawAnd when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
Numbers
LawAnd very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawGod forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
Numbers
LawSo the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Joshua
HistorySurely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
2 Samuel
HistoryVerily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
Mark
GospelsThe king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHe becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhich was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
Luke
GospelsThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.