For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
Judges
History / SamuelSo he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Genesis
LawAnd her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Acts
HistoryHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
Acts
History / LukeOf the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus
LawAnd the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis
LawAnd think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew
GospelsAt that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
2 Kings
HistoryI wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms
PoetryHis work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryAsshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThese are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Numbers
LawMake haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.