The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Judges
HistoryTherefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeAnd Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1 Kings
HistoryBut it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraO Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahShe also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
HistoryMoreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesYe shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBeware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesFor he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
Matthew
GospelsAnd we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.