When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Genesis
LawAnd he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis
LawAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsThe LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Simon he surnamed Peter;
Mark
GospelsAnd Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis
Law / MosesBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job
WisdomAnd Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Acts
History / LukeAnd led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
John
GospelsThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;