Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
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And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraVanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Genesis
Law / MosesHer wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Judges
HistoryThe LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Psalms
PoetryFor the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
WisdomAnd there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhile I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude
General Epistles / JudeThus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
Exodus
LawWherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?