He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWithout the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
Leviticus
LawHe turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Ruth
History / SamuelIt shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis
Law / MosesVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Deuteronomy
LawA 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 / MosesAnd certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Mark
GospelsThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Acts
History / LukeAnd in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraA father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.