For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
HistoryAnd they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus
LawAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
Numbers
LawAnd now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
John
GospelsYe are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John
GospelsAnd for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawWho laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
Gospels / JohnHe that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs
WisdomWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAll the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHorror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.