O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
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And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
HistoryFor it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.
Judges
HistoryAnd he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawThey that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
HistoryMoreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
LawBut they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Matthew
GospelsWhoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs
WisdomTake heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesI have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAs it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.