Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Judges
History / SamuelBut Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAll the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
HistoryI will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job
WisdomAnd the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis
LawThen the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
Judges
History / SamuelLet no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWere it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMy words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryHe gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Psalms
PoetrySince the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Nehemiah
HistoryStand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.