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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis
LawWherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings
HistoryHe hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Psalms
PoetryLet now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
Ezra
HistoryLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat no flesh should glory in his presence.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Luke
GospelsFor an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew
GospelsYet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
HistoryThey that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAzmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,