And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
Genesis
LawAnd Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThere shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis
LawAnd the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel
HistoryVanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHave I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psalms
PoetryThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThat every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.