And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
HistoryAnd all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Acts
HistoryThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
Job
WisdomBut a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Acts
History / LukeI said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.