Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
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That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Judges
HistoryLet that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAlso in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
Leviticus
LawWhen a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
Mark
GospelsWith my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
Psalms
PoetryBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles
HistoryUpon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAfter this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Acts
History / LukeNow we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHaving your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis
LawFor he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.