But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
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But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosTake the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Acts
HistoryAlso her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Esther
HistoryAt Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts
HistoryBut Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luke
GospelsBe it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts
HistoryBut I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew
GospelsOne generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis
LawAnd again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulReward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.