And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
LawFor their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBlessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWho knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job
WisdomWhen he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSay among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Judges
HistoryAnd they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Acts
History / LukeOut of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James
General Epistles / JamesSend therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus
LawThey shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.