Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
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Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhat prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1 Kings
HistoryI do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Acts
HistoryFor now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John
GospelsHis brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
John
GospelsIt is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings
HistoryWhereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Acts
HistoryAmaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus
LawAnd he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Judges
History / SamuelNow it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.