Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryForget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomA bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNow the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhere no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalms
PoetryCanst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job
WisdomFor I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms
PoetryEither three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalms
PoetryIn the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.