Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
John
GospelsAnd there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryIf any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deuteronomy
LawBut the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOr a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy
LawThe LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Psalms
PoetryHe that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
2 Kings
HistoryPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
LawAnd the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMaster, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mark
GospelsIf thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
Genesis
Law / MosesTell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.