And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Acts
HistoryAnd Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanA naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges
History / SamuelThese are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.
Nehemiah
HistoryHis disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Matthew
GospelsAll the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThis is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Daniel
Major ProphetsMy doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Acts
History / LukeAnd unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSo that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
Exodus
LawIf his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;