And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
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He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahNow rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBehold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles
HistoryUnto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd 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 Prophets / MalachiAnd there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Acts
HistorySo Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges
HistoryTherefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
John
GospelsFor Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
John
Gospels / JohnHe brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.