For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Psalms
PoetryAnd every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus
LawAnd the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
HistoryPut on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThough these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job
WisdomLike as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job
WisdomWho verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterLift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Job
WisdomThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?