But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
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Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryI will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAlso in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesThey gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings
HistoryNeither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Amos
Minor ProphetsTo dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job
WisdomGreet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIt shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWoe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke
GospelsYet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.