They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers
LawYet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John
Gospels / JohnMaaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy
LawI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah
HistoryTake heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBe not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1 John
General EpistlesHe smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts
History / LukeThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis
LawAnd he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus
LawThat he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?