For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryThou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLet our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts
HistoryThis is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Numbers
Law / MosesI spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNeither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Leviticus
LawBut ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Acts
HistoryAnd the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.