And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
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But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOne thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Psalms
PoetryAnd hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Numbers
LawAnd Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis
LawYe have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John
GospelsNor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke
GospelsAnd Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAlso we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMoreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.