When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Esther
History / MordecaiThese are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Exodus
LawTherefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBlessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew
GospelsThen it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownEven so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Job
WisdomFor I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBut though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job
WisdomHis sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,