Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers
LawThe God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Acts
History / LukeThen when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John
Gospels / JohnThen came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTake thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Exodus
LawHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
PoetryFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms
PoetryI have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Solomon's Song
PoetryHe that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James
General Epistles / JamesWhy hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTake the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers
LawNow therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBecause he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,