And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis
LawAnd I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Lamentations
Major ProphetsMoreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
1 Chronicles
HistoryCanst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job
Wisdom / JobOf the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThese are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
Deuteronomy
LawThe heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLet my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job
WisdomAnd I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
Judges
HistoryAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
LawWhether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryA time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.