And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
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That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra
HistoryThen cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
John
GospelsOnly Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
Ezra
HistoryThen shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Numbers
LawAnd there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesHow is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThis is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Psalms
PoetryAt that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis
LawAnd if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
GospelsAnd certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOnly unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.