The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSeraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSurely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Acts
HistoryAnd whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
LawFor if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther
HistoryMy bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job
WisdomThey clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts
HistoryAnd them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsScornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts
HistoryAnd they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Numbers
LawJesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.