So the people rested on the seventh day.
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And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Exodus
LawAll the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Acts
History / LukeFor to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
LawBut straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew
GospelsFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryBut as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesWhen she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWoe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.