And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
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The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahYe shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
Leviticus
LawThat he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
Acts
History / LukeBetter is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsIncline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus
Law / MosesA slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs
WisdomThey shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThis Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Joshua
HistoryThe LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAt my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesSon of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesGibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,