My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Ezra
HistoryThe LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWhich the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Job
Wisdom / JobThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Numbers
LawAnd with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
WisdomNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
Judges
History / SamuelFor I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.