And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
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Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
Numbers
LawAnd he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
Numbers
LawAnd he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
Leviticus
LawUpon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Numbers
LawAnd let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
John
Gospels / JohnWhen he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkGive heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus
Law / MosesAll the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThey are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;