Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
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And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
Acts
HistorySon of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus
LawI am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
Solomon's Song
PoetryO give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deuteronomy
LawBut thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
HistoryWhither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNot given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWhoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Proverbs
WisdomBut he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnMoreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Exodus
LawAnd thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
Judges
HistoryI cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.