But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts
History / LukeIn flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus
LawThe rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
Matthew
GospelsVerily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus
Law / MosesThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnThe king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
Psalms
PoetryHim that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
1 Kings
HistoryWhose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
John
GospelsThe fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.