But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis
LawAnd I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesReprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
1 Kings
HistoryOne is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
WisdomAnd he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
Joshua
HistoryFor the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
Matthew
GospelsAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
Exodus
LawAnd that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy
LawThen he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
Luke
GospelsNow therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.