For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
WisdomAnd the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
Ruth
HistoryAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMake ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
Mark
GospelsThe burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukTherefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings
HistoryBy whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryFor I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis
LawAnd when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.