And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
Genesis
LawHaving then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Judges
History / SamuelThen said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
HistoryHis flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
Wisdom / JobLikewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke
GospelsJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahForasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHe made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation
ApocalypticThat they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryGo, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
1 Kings
HistoryOh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThis charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.