For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
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And charged them that they should not make him known:
Matthew
GospelsSalute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
Acts
HistoryI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis
LawAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2 Kings
HistoryJehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms
PoetryAnd at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThis witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
LawThen the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.