And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
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But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMoreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Psalms
PoetryAnd a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua
History / JoshuaWherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Matthew
GospelsI know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThen answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job
WisdomThey are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
1 Kings
HistoryI am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms
PoetryWhen I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Psalms
PoetryFor I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
1 Samuel
HistoryFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBetter is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.