And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
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And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGod standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew
GospelsA good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers
LawI will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts
History / LukeThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
HistoryFor this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings
HistoryBe ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
James
General Epistles / JamesSo Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahRun ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhat mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
1 Kings
HistoryTrust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job
WisdomBehold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.