In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
Judges
HistoryAnd the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus
LawAnd by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMeraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
Genesis
LawAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John
Gospels / JohnAnd in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms
PoetryThey shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNeither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOn the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahHe hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.