And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
Leviticus
LawAnd when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
Exodus
LawHe chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAt the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis
LawAnd when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
Genesis
Law / MosesAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Genesis
Law / MosesI make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMaaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahQuicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHer wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Judges
HistoryUnderstanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSay unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?