And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
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For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhich turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther
HistoryAnd when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
HistoryThen were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsCount not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
1 Samuel
HistoryZelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Judges
History / SamuelOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy
LawWoe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.