And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
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The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Esther
HistoryAnd in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Ezra
History / EzraNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesIt is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel
HistoryI have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAt that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryThat they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
Acts
History / LukeHis offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis
Law / MosesThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.