And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
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This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezra
HistoryTurn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark
GospelsHerein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John
General EpistlesIn the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.
Numbers
LawWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra
History / EzraThe twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryO LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Ezra
HistoryFinally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMarvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
HistoryI have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.