And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
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Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownUse hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis
LawAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
1 Chronicles
HistoryRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsOr suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus
LawAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIdolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis
LawSo Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth
History / SamuelNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhich now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
Leviticus
LawThe righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawAnd did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;