The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
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And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Esther
History / MordecaiFather, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John
GospelsAnd they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
Mark
GospelsAnd out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
Wisdom / JobSaying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
Judges
HistoryFor thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Exodus
Law / MosesFurthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Esther
HistoryAnd her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
LawHowbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Revelation
ApocalypticDuke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.