And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
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Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
1 Kings
HistoryHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Kings
HistoryThe word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTruly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
Leviticus
LawAnd they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiNot with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra
History / EzraBehold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
Numbers
LawThus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus
LawAnd all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.