But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
Acts
History / LukeAnd seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAlthough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsThe tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job
WisdomAnd my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Luke
GospelsAnd he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
Acts
History / LukeWe have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryA fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joel
Minor ProphetsIbhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.