We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts
History / LukeBut he passing through the midst of them went his way,
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
1 Kings
HistoryJoab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawFor there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Genesis
LawTherefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms
PoetryHis work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy
LawThus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThis is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.