Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor 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
PoetryThen he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew
GospelsAnd the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThen he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John
GospelsAnd beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs
WisdomThe king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua
HistoryAnd they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
Mark
GospelsAnd God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Acts
HistorySay thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: