And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
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And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonJesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John
GospelsFor John was not yet cast into prison.
John
GospelsEither how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYe yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
John
GospelsNow after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges
History / SamuelThen all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMoab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2 Kings
HistoryThe word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis
LawWherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Proverbs
WisdomWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWith thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Ezra
HistoryMost men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs
WisdomOver the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs
WisdomThe king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua
History / JoshuaEgypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.