And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
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But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsRemove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus
LawWith him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Numbers
Law / MosesOf Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
Numbers
LawGo through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsSo the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
Ruth
HistoryAnd they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Genesis
Law / MosesNevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2 Samuel
HistoryShe also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Proverbs
WisdomTo stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Esther
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Numbers
LawThe LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
2 Kings
HistoryIn the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis
LawBut Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?