Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
Judges
HistoryWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
1 Chronicles
HistoryHis confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Job
WisdomA poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsBut his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Judges
History / SamuelShe is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Job
Wisdom / JobHe brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms
PoetryThe word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesLo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
Numbers
LawAnd the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Judges
HistoryThen thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.