And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
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And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2 Kings
HistoryWith whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis
LawThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsForasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhen thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
WisdomAnd whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John
GospelsNow therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBy pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
HistoryAnd Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis
LawAnd this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1 John
General EpistlesIn thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Genesis
Law / MosesReprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Joshua
HistoryDo they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPeter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.