Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawBecause I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Hosea
Minor Prophets(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawIf that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFrom twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers
LawHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job
WisdomThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Numbers
LawTo crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsLest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.