And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
History / MordecaiHe made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms
PoetryAnd the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1 Kings
HistoryLet us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms
PoetryFor at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAbout whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
Acts
History / LukeDarts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job
WisdomFor oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawAnd judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
Numbers
LawIt shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus
LawAnd set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWho covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms
PoetryThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.