But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job
Wisdom / JobShall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
Mark
GospelsAnd David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTeach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Psalms
PoetryGrant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelLet us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBe not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhere they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
John
GospelsAnd thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job
WisdomAfterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHe shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.