These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBe not ye therefore partakers with them.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesSo that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDefile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
Joshua
HistoryAnd hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus
LawHe evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job
WisdomAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
1 Kings
HistoryFor our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThen he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Psalms
PoetryThen cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
Leviticus
LawSimon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
John
GospelsAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers
LawO LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.