And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Psalms
PoetryEvil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Psalms
PoetryI said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Solomon's Song
PoetryThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Acts
HistoryDoth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
WisdomAnd command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms
PoetryAnd on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
Acts
History / LukeIn the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when Moses heard that, he was content.
Leviticus
LawHis eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOf his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesDo we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.