Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Judges
HistoryAnd he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWho redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielCursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Esther
History / MordecaiBut they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
Genesis
LawAnd Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
John
GospelsAnd after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy
LawThe violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers
Law / MosesYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts
HistoryAnd when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis
LawWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsKnowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,