Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
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And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis
LawAnd the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis
Law / MosesThe burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts
HistoryBut he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
Matthew
GospelsI am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms
PoetryLet there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus
Law / MosesBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThen Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Judges
History / SamuelThe pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGod having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Samuel
HistoryMy hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus
LawThe Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBe it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts
History / LukeNow therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.