If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Genesis
LawAnd said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Esther
History / MordecaiThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms
PoetryThe third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryWho is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
Ezra
HistoryIn the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
HistoryWhen thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawFor as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luke
GospelsLet not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exodus
LawFor, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges
History / SamuelSon of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.