Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
HistoryFor they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judges
HistoryThen Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
Daniel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Ezra
HistoryAnd he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawDepart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel
HistoryShe stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Luke
GospelsAnd when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew
GospelsThat they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.