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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(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesThe sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAn end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Exodus
Law / MosesThey have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsWherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielPraise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
Psalms
PoetryThen came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSome of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewJerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThese things I command you, that ye love one another.
John
GospelsAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
John
GospelsSo they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.