So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
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With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
WisdomHear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis
LawThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Acts
HistoryI will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Psalms
PoetryThere are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryTo make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Psalms
PoetryEven in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryFor he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.