Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
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But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Exodus
LawAnd the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBurning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIt is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomGive wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges
History / SamuelThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job
WisdomBut the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Joshua
HistoryAnd while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
WisdomFor he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
2 John
General EpistlesAnd Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Numbers
LawThou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.