When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobThe burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiRighteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Judges
History / SamuelThen said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job
WisdomHanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luke
GospelsAnd Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
Joshua
HistoryThe righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
Leviticus
LawThe Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
Judges
HistoryA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.