To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
Acts
HistoryMoreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
Matthew
GospelsSo that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Acts
HistoryAnd he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua
HistoryMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
Numbers
LawThus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNeither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Mark
GospelsAnd he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your's, but God's.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Acts
HistoryFor as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.