For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
Esther
HistoryBut Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
John
GospelsYe shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus
LawA wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Mark
GospelsHave I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers
LawAnd they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.
Judges
HistoryAnd when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
Acts
HistoryWherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job
WisdomBehold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
Numbers
LawWhat is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
1 Kings
HistoryUnderstand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy
LawHe that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges
HistoryBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWho smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
Psalms
PoetryAnd they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.