Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
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But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther
HistoryNow Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesLet my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings
HistoryFor Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAlso he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOf the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahZadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
Mark
GospelsHollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnWhich I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis
LawAnd it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Joshua
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesKnowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter
General EpistlesHo, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTheir bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.