Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
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I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Samuel
HistoryZebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Judges
HistoryHe will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahSo Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth
History / SamuelFor our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
Acts
History / LukeAnd he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luke
GospelsBrethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus
LawAnd it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
1 Samuel
HistoryJoseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
1 Kings
HistoryThen lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.