And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
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For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Numbers
LawOut of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
John
GospelsGive not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThough I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsEvery one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms
PoetryHowbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
PoetryBecause he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
1 Samuel
HistoryYet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.