And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOrder my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms
PoetryI will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
Joshua
HistoryNow when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luke
GospelsThe LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawI lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAfterward 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 / NehemiahAnd the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.