For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
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And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWho covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahA wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomThe LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAs the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John
Gospels / JohnBecause that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke
GospelsMy soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms
PoetryTake ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers
Law / MosesThe LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
Genesis
LawFor I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMoreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.