They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
Luke
GospelsThe golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
Numbers
LawAnd my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Job
WisdomLet their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Exodus
LawAnd when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs
WisdomGo up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryA proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs
WisdomBut thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deuteronomy
LawThen called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahCry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: