And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
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And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlso regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
Esther
HistoryFor if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIn that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Genesis
LawNow if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBeing made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis
Law / MosesOne cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
LawAccording to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryNor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.