Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHaman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiPrecious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Psalms
PoetryWhen it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Luke
GospelsOf the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra
History / EzraCarry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Esther
HistoryThen said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Judges
History / SamuelWoe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.