And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
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And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Luke
GospelsNow therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
Matthew
GospelsThe seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers
LawMagpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke
GospelsBehold, 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 Prophets / JeremiahTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Kings
HistoryThat I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis
LawThough he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job
WisdomThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus
LawAnd they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs
WisdomHe then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
John
GospelsAnd to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesO fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
Judges
HistoryThe words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.