And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
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Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy
LawThy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAlso they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAs for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Acts
History / LukeMy righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
Genesis
Law / MosesI was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
Mark
GospelsSo Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
2 Samuel
HistoryNeither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
Joshua
HistoryVerily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew
GospelsAnd though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
1 Kings
HistoryHow should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?