It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
Nehemiah
HistoryA sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Acts
HistoryFor these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
1 Kings
HistoryI will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job
WisdomLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra
HistoryAnd ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Daniel
Major ProphetsTherefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
Acts
History / LukeAnd Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Luke
GospelsNow the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.