And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
Luke
GospelsThe nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis
LawExhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus
LawBow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms
PoetryFor there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesCan one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Proverbs
WisdomThen Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTheir idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Numbers
LawAll these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,