He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryMy bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
1 Kings
HistoryBut Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Acts
HistoryAnd David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Acts
HistoryAnd the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings
HistoryThe children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs
WisdomGod forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job
WisdomAnd again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luke
GospelsRemember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Psalms
PoetryWhoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
Mark
GospelsAnd thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,