The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
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And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Job
Wisdom / JobLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
PoetryNow Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanPraise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
Joshua
HistoryThou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers
LawAnd she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
1 Kings
HistoryThy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers
LawIf thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs
WisdomSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThere was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Luke
GospelsFor he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
Acts
History / LukeThus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.