Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
Genesis
LawAnd woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Matthew
GospelsAlso the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
1 Samuel
HistoryThou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Exodus
LawMake haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonBut afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
Luke
GospelsHow long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Acts
HistorySurely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
Job
WisdomI will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Genesis
LawAnd the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis
LawFor it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielHow excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
LawThus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.