The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
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And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James
General EpistlesAnd the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsEgypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewArise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryWhose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
Exodus
LawAnd they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus
LawLet them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther
History / MordecaiLo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJudas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
John
Gospels / JohnSo she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.