And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Genesis
LawAnd the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Numbers
LawHe answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John
GospelsFor she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
Wisdom / JobGive the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms
PoetryThere shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
Ezra
HistoryGod hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
John
Gospels / JohnMachnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,