But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
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Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawNow therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
Genesis
Law / MosesYet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
Judges
HistoryAnd all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
Genesis
LawAnd the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Joshua
HistoryAnd the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAsahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
Genesis
LawThen hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis
LawIt was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
Exodus
Law / MosesThat Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawThe shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.