For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy
LawI watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPrepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
2 Kings
HistoryMine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBehold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
Ezra
History / EzraThe men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
Leviticus
LawSit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
Genesis
LawNow the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.