And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesI will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahConscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psalms
PoetryThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
WisdomThen said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSet up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOur fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts
HistoryAnd so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
John
Gospels / JohnIs not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelNow the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Joshua
HistoryWatch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Mark
Gospels / MarkI gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
John
Gospels / JohnBut when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.