If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
Genesis
LawAnd as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewForbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Judges
HistoryWe heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Mark
GospelsAnd when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIn the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
HistoryThy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus
LawBut many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Mark
GospelsA bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOne spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
Numbers
LawAnd if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Genesis
Law / MosesThat word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts
HistoryIt hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesShallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.