Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
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Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Nehemiah
HistoryI will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahArise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Job
Wisdom / JobBut he spake of the temple of his body.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John
GospelsAnd when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel
HistoryMake thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.