And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
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And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
1 Samuel
HistoryIn the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
2 Kings
HistoryThus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Genesis
Law / MosesEven as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Proverbs
WisdomGomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesIf thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus
LawAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThen Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
John
Gospels / JohnFor all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawBehold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Acts
History / LukeThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBecause thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luke
GospelsWe hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Psalms
PoetryThe mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,