And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
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And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
Judges
HistoryWithhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Psalms
PoetryNotwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDepart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Psalms
PoetryYour country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Proverbs
WisdomWhen therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts
HistorySo he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSaying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Luke
GospelsThe sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBecause they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms
PoetryAnd they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.