And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
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Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs
WisdomAfter he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLike the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
GospelsSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThey shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesPraise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye are witnesses of these things.
Luke
GospelsAnd he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Nehemiah
HistorySorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew
GospelsNow these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis
LawAnd they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSimon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.