And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
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I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
Numbers
Law / MosesMoses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job
WisdomAm I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
GospelsFor Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
Law / MosesThis he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistorySay ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Mark
Gospels / MarkInsomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew
GospelsMaaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.