Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
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The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Psalms
PoetryIn the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
Leviticus
LawIs any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
James
General EpistlesSo Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLikewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1 Kings
HistoryGive, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke
GospelsThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Genesis
Law / MosesShe put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra
HistoryAnd again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther
HistoryHe that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;