Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWho changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Exodus
Law / MosesBecause my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTheir children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel
HistoryFrom the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAlso he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: