If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus
LawAnd he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Genesis
Law / MosesLo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matthew
GospelsIn the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
2 Kings
HistoryBecause thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy
LawWoe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
Luke
GospelsIn that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticSo shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBeloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnShe considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Proverbs
WisdomFor Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
Esther
History / MordecaiBut Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.