All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryKeep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear, 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 Prophets / JeremiahMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms
PoetryBut the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Acts
HistoryAnd Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Acts
History / LukeThey were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIt is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts
HistoryOn the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAll ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
1 Samuel
HistoryFor Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd 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
HistoryWhence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.