And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
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How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryCain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryA foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs
WisdomOf the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges
History / SamuelDeliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
Exodus
Law / MosesFor this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
Numbers
LawAnd the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticThey shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms
PoetryThen said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.