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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Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Genesis
LawAnd God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOne board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus
LawAnd Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
John
GospelsThou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
GospelsAnd, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Genesis
LawO magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psalms
PoetryAnd said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
Exodus
Law / MosesHow think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
Luke
GospelsBut the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCome, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
Genesis
LawAnd the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.