Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs
WisdomYe shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSeven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJoseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Genesis
LawHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
WisdomThis is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawBut Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSalute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers
LawThe fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSaying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
Acts
History / LukeDiscretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs
WisdomOf the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.