Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esther
History / MordecaiBehold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job
WisdomAnd Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
2 Samuel
HistoryOpen rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs
WisdomBut the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
Judges
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luke
GospelsTherefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Matthew
GospelsWhile the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Nehemiah
HistoryThe LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.