If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
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And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
Joshua
HistoryYea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms
PoetryFor death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
History / MordecaiAs every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
Ezra
HistoryMoses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryWoe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mark
Gospels / MarkSo he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHis troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job
WisdomAnd at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;
Nehemiah
HistoryNow the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelDo ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job
WisdomOnly Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlso Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
1 Chronicles
HistoryIf his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.