They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Proverbs
WisdomBut ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
LawLet not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThere is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhere we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAlso he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
Ruth
History / SamuelThat they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Amos
Minor ProphetsMoses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Joshua
HistoryThese are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawAnd he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy
LawThen shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?