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He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Job
WisdomAnd here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
Judges
History / SamuelFor Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
Esther
HistoryThere is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job
WisdomUnless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew
GospelsHe shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
Job
WisdomThe LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosEven the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis
LawGo and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Ezra
HistoryThe LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.