When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Numbers
LawThe elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryYea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms
PoetryIf these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers
Law / MosesWith the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
Exodus
Law / MosesOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhich said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
WisdomBut after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
Acts
History / LukeTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesForsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.