But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
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For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Job
WisdomAnd the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges
HistoryYea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeSo Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Kings
HistoryFor who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat 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
LawO God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPraise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
Luke
GospelsThe heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua
HistorySo shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
2 Samuel
HistoryA wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
GospelsWho is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.