They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor ProphetsI beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Judges
History / SamuelFor such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis
LawAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job
Wisdom / JobKnowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job
WisdomOut of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Numbers
Law / MosesIn the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Numbers
LawAnd hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Luke
GospelsAnd the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra
History / EzraA froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Matthew
GospelsPeter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
John
Gospels / JohnHe saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,