They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHow thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
2 Kings
HistoryFor Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus
Law / MosesTo dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job
WisdomA man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonReturn, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms
PoetryAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
History / SamuelThen he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
PoetryYe also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter
General EpistlesTherefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Acts
HistoryAnd they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Judges
HistoryThat their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTo call passengers who go right on their ways:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSee therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.