And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
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Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psalms
PoetryWho, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahShe said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
John
GospelsAnd Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis
LawWoe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms
PoetryFor by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Job
WisdomAnd how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
Acts
HistoryBless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
Genesis
LawWho, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis
LawAnd they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mark
GospelsAnd they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
Matthew
GospelsAnd his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.