And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
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There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua
HistoryFor Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
2 Kings
HistoryHe brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Acts
HistoryBut they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis
LawSing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen 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
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Proverbs
WisdomFor word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahO LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis
Law / MosesAfter this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThe son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesNow therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.