And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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And he wrote a letter after this manner:
Acts
History / LukeThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsThe children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryWith the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
2 Samuel
HistoryGive us this day our daily bread.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James
General EpistlesFor her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges
HistoryThen the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNeither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them.
Judges
HistoryAnd I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSon of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Deuteronomy
LawBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Deuteronomy
LawIf David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Luke
Gospels / Luke(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)