Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
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And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Esther
History / MordecaiThen Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWoe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Exodus
Law / MosesO thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus
LawAnd David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
1 Samuel
HistoryWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
HistoryI cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryI have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?