When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryWhom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Acts
HistoryThe men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah
HistoryAlso unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms
PoetryNow ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John
GospelsThen Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Acts
History / LukeThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAdam, Sheth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFrom thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luke
GospelsThe anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exodus
LawIf ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
John
GospelsGreat men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job
WisdomO remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.