Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryAnd behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOf the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra
HistorySet a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Psalms
PoetryFor it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deuteronomy
LawNow therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
Joshua
HistoryIn that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsNotwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesI speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielUntil the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
Psalms
PoetryWho teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Job
Wisdom / JobHazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Nehemiah
HistoryBut when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahLike as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua
HistoryRiches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.