For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawAnd when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
Acts
HistoryThe righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Proverbs
WisdomLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryIn that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
GospelsNeither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAs soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
Genesis
LawAnd behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTheir children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAt that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Proverbs
WisdomHe asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.