And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
Law / MosesJesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
John
GospelsWho is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNow the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis
LawAccording to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSuffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job
Wisdom / JobBut if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOf a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
Luke
GospelsAnd he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBy me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
Judges
HistoryHast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job
WisdomAnd he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.