And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Numbers
LawAnd the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis
LawAnd when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs
WisdomBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
Judges
HistoryThey gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
Luke
GospelsAnd rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Luke
GospelsNow when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Exodus
LawAnd Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Luke
GospelsHe that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts
HistoryAnd now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.