So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers
Law / MosesAs for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThough while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
Psalms
PoetryAnd then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
Esther
HistoryAnd for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Psalms
PoetryWhoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Acts
History / LukeFor her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis
LawAnd David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Leviticus
LawEsther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: