And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
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The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
John
Gospels / JohnAll this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Psalms
PoetryAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNeither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers
Law / MosesThat the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy
LawDeliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryAnd let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Ruth
HistoryBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaKnow ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
2 Samuel
HistoryTake good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.