For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTake heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kings
HistoryThat thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job
WisdomAnd delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter
General EpistlesCome ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThey that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
WisdomFor whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTo translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
HistoryMoreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.