But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIt is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThen said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Acts
HistoryOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Numbers
LawThe proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.