The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Acts
HistoryAnd ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAs the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBe thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThey compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
Numbers
LawFor this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Esther
HistoryAnd he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.