The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
HistoryThus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
Judges
History / SamuelThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHow many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
PoetryThen Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
Ezra
History / EzraSo shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAn angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.