These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Job
Wisdom / JobBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
LawWhen Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah
HistoryWhen Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
John
GospelsAnd she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
LawBehold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Revelation
ApocalypticMan is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
1 Kings
HistoryBut he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
Judges
HistoryFor she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlso he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.